Herodotus Quotes
5+ Best Herodotus Authors Quotes
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
When there is peace and harmony in your inner self, you can feel it around you. If you fill your heart with evil thoughts and deeds you are sure to see and experience the same. Your inner self is your soul; it is your inner conscience. It can lead you in the right direction if you pay heed to it. So the next time you feel things have not turned the way you wanted, do not curse your destiny. Your destiny is within you, so go deeper and get to know your real self.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Now, 2400 years after Herodotus, psychologists are completing experiments that confirm Herodotus' ancient wisdom...our eyes overrule our ears...truly, we do believe what our eyes see them do more than what our ears hear them say. This applies to their major actions and to their minor body-language signals.
Great things are won by great dangers.
An effort isn’t the only thing needed in order for you need to be successful and get to where you want to go, but it sure is an absolute must and something that lacks in a whole lot of people who desire massive amounts of success. Great things are won by great dangers.
Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious.
True friends are pillars of life. They are the precious gift that we have achieved. We should learn to love, care, be affectionate, patient with our friends. Feeling and caring are the two most important things between two friends. One's friendship can break due for some reasons, but restoring the friendship again is also one of the most important points.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
When it talks about peace it means when a man isn’t at war and instead with his family and his dad dies before him like usual, and the son is at his father's funeral, but when the man goes to war the father is at his sons funeral. Nothing about it connects to me, I just chose this one because it’s the only one I thought had real meaning to it. This quote makes me think of death, war, and sadness.