Heraclitus Quotes

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Heraclitus

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• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
  • Seek
  • Approval

• I seek solutions, not battles.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Solutions
  • Seek
  • Battles

• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Seek

• The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Job
  • Integrity

• 'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Church

• I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time

• The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Country
  • America

• Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Environment

• A man could fight bullets and bayonets, even rockets if he understood the weapon, but no man understood the invisible enemies. Sharpe wished he knew how to propitiate Fate, the soldiers' Goddess, but She was a capricious deity, without loyalty.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • She
  • Fate
  • Loyalty

• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • May
  • Society

• Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Improvement

• Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Matters
  • Seek

• Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

  

  Aristotle
  • Facts
  • Cause
  • Seek

• All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Success
  • Happiness

• Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

  

  Sophocles
  • First
  • Impossible
  • Seek

• Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Seek
  • Riches
  • Distribute

• Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

  

  Epictetus
  • Wish
  • Events
  • Seek

• Trading would definitely benefit people on both sides of the border and this could be termed as a strategic partnership.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • People
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Military

• Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Singing

• I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Happiness

• It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Peace
  • Price
  • Loneliness

• Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Seek
  • Unforeseen
  • Impasse