Heraclitus, Fragment 18 (D 40)
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"Much learning does not teach understanding. For it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and also Xenophanes and Hecataes."
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Heraclitus, Fragment 17 (D 19)
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"Not knowing how to listen, neither can they speak." (Kahn 17; cp. DM & S 19)
We listen before we speak,...
Heraclitus, Fragment 16 (D 107)
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"Eyes and ears are bad witnesses for those who have barbarian souls." (Sweet 107; cp. WF 27, DK B107, W...
Heraclitus, Fragment 15 (D 101A)
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"]" Kahn 15; cp. DK 101a, S 101a, W 12, LM D32)
If we get a glimpse of an object while...
Heraclitus, Fragment 14 (D 55)
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"Whatever comes from sight, hearing, learning from experience: this I prefer." (Kahn 14; cp. LM D31, W 11, S 55,...