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Herodotus Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
— Herodotus, Strategy Synthesis: Resolving Strategy Paradoxes to Create Competitive Advantage
Tagged: Knowledge, Power, Control, Wisdom
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Trust, Hearing, Gossip, News, Vision, seeing, Belief, believing
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”
— Herodotus, The Histories Book 9: Calliope
Tagged: Life, Living, Knowledge, Grief, Sorrow, Power, Control, Truth
“Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Life, Living, Love, Loving, Relationship
“I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay”
— Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Tagged: Happiness, Fulfillment, lasting, Life
“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: War, rule, royalty, army, Men, troops, History, historical
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun or relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
— Herodotus, Herodotus
Tagged: relax, calm, Fun, Slowing Down
“From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: actions, Wrong, Right, punishment, gods, Beliefs, Religion
“Human prosperity never abides long in the same place”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Life, Living, prosperity, Success, Wealth, afluence
“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Death, Children, Parents, War, burial
“The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.”
— Herodotus, Histories: Bk. VIII-IX
Tagged: Rhetoric, might, Greatness, Power, Reach, royalty, rule
“Hippocleides doesn't care”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Life, Living, caring, History, humor
“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Relationships, People, Judgement, Pity, Envy, Jealousy, Emotion
“Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.”
— Herodotus, Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox
Tagged: Life, Living, circumstance, happenings
“Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: army, Men, History
“My men have turned into women and my women into men!”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Men, Women, gender, Life
“I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: Happiness, lasting friendship, Relationships
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
— Herodotus, The Histories
Tagged: actions, decision, Risk, Chance, Opportunity
“Force has no place where there is need of skill”
— Herodotus, Beyond the Bounds: A History of UPMC
Tagged: force, skill, Knowledge, ability
“The women, I conjecture, were called doves by the Dodonaeans, because they were barbarians, and they seemed to chatter like birds; but after a time, when the woman spoke intelligibly to them, they presently reported that the dove had spoken with a human voice; for as long as she used a barbarous language, she appeared to them to chatter like a bird: for how could a dove speak with a human voice?”
— Herodotus, The History
Tagged: Women, historical, anecdote, Speaking, voice, talk
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