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
