Herodotus Quotes

• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in People, Weight

• Great things are won by great dangers.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dangers, Great

• There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Useless, Foolish

• It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible, Good Things

• The destiny of man is in his own soul.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Destiny, Man

• When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Garment

• The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Misfortune, Human

• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possessions, Precious

• It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Anticipate, Boldness

• Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

  Herodotus

  Topics in God

  Tags in Impossible, Whatever

• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

  Herodotus

  Topics in History

  Tags in Conscientious, Right

• It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Many, Equality

• The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Man

• In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, War

• One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

  Herodotus

  Topics in God

  Tags in Blessedness, Overturn

• To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Consent, Someone

• The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Planned, Stroke

• The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Punish, Whatever

• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lesser, Eyes

• Men’s fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

  Herodotus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fortune, Man

Herodotus (47)

Birth:	484 BC
Death:	425 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Historian

About

Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey. He was a Greek historian. He is widely referred to as "The Father of History"; he was the first historian known to have broken from Homeric tradition to treat historical subjects as a method of investigation—specifically, by collecting his materials systematically and critically, and then arranging them into a historiographic narrative. The Histories is the only work which he is known to have produced, a record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.

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