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Greek Wisdom Quotes

The way we think about a problem determines its outcome. These ancient wisdom quotes have stood the test of time and can assist you in new ways of thinking about old and new problems.



Heraclitus:


  • “Nothing endures but change.”  

                  


  • “Only through this tension of opposites can there emerge any order or harmony.”   



Sophocles:


  • “Men of all judgement often ignores then good that lies within their hands, until they have lost it.”   


  • “Ships are only hulls; high walls are nothing. When no life moves in the empty passageways.”    

                  Oedipus Rex


  • “How dreadful knowledge; the truth can be. when there’s no help in truth.”  


  • “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”  


  • “Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”   


  • “Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.” 


  • “The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can reach.” 


  • “Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”

   

  • “The good befriend themselves.”

 

  • “Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. the second best is to have seen the light and then to go back quickly.” 


  • “One word frees us of all the weight and paralyzes. That word is love.” 


Euripides:


  • “Leave no stone unturned.”  

 

  • “Those who God wishes to destroy; he first makes mad.” 


  • “A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” 


  • “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”   


  • “A bad beginning makes a bad ending.’


  • “Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”  



Herodotus:


  • “Force has no place when there is great skill.”  


  • “Haste in every business brings failures.”   



Other Wisdom Philosophers:


  • “In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.”  -  Democritus


  • “Wait for that wisest of all counselors, time.”  Plutarch


  • “Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.”  Hippocrates 



  

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