Heraclitus Quotes

You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.