Prominent Quotes by Heraclitus

Learning many things does not teach understanding

— Heraclitus

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

— Heraclitus

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

— Heraclitus

“One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary”

— Heraclitus

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

— Heraclitus

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

— Heraclitus

Everything is in flux.

— Heraclitus

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

— Heraclitus

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed.

— Heraclitus

War is the father of all things.

— Heraclitus

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

— Heraclitus