Wisdom is one thing - to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Wisdom is the ability to judge correctly and understand how everything influences everything else.
- In plain terms
- Wisdom means making sound judgments and seeing interconnections.
- What can you take from it?
- Cultivate holistic thinking for better decisions.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does interconnected thinking improve judgment?
- When might over‑analysis hinder action?
Another view
Even wise judgments can be wrong due to incomplete information.
More from Heraclitus
Where there is no strife there is decay: The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.
Permalink to quote #53 All men are deceived by the appearances of things, even Homer himself, who was the wisest man in Greece; for he was deceived by boys catching lice, they said t…
Permalink to quote #55 We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Permalink to quote #52
Related quotes
He is the only man...who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day.
Erich LudendorffErich Ludendorff quote #5 Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philos…
Georg Christoph LichtenbergGeorg Christoph Lichtenberg quote #7 He ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much conf…
Niccolo MachiavelliNiccolo Machiavelli quote #11