Much learning does not teach understanding.
"Heraclitus of Ephesus" was a Pre-Socratic philosophy/pre-Socratic Greek philosophy/Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling and paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".
Heraclitus is famous for his insistence on ever-present Change (philosophy)/change in the universe, as stated in the famous saying, "No man ever steps in the same river twice" (see #Panta rhei, "everything flows"/panta rhei, below). He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that "the path up and down are one and the same", all existing entities being characterized by pairs of contrary properties. His cryptic utterance that "all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos" (literally, "word", "reason", or "account") has been the subject of numerous interpretations.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous philosophers! More Heraclitus on Wikipedia.A man's character is his fate.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
You cannot step twice into the same river.
Nature is won't to hide herself.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
All is flux, nothing stays still.
Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Change alone is unchanging.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
The sun is new each day.
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Nothing endures but change.
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