Heraclitus Quotes

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

Have read little and understood less.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.