You Cannot Step In The Same River Twice Quotes

#1. You cannot step in the same river twice, because it is always flowing.

Osho

#2. Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in fact in motion all the time, doing nothing is not really doing nothing, it's allowing things to mover at their own pace

Niall Williams

#3. You cannot step into the same river twice

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

#4. Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Philip Johnson

#5. What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Pocahontas

#6. Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus

#7. Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Mary Renault

#8. I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

John Boorman

#9. You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Jacques Barzun

#10. You cannot step twice in the same river--Heraclitus

Jessica B. Harris

#11. You never step into the same river twice,

Nicci French

#12. The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Tom Coburn

#13. One cannot step twice in the same river

Heraclitus

#14. If you feel afraid of magic,
then you've been enchanted.

Toba Beta

#15. As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Allan Bloom

#16. Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#17. They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Harry Reid

#18. Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged ... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.

Susan Isaacs

#20. wise men are remembered, they always are.

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. You can never step in the same river twice.

Heraclitus

#22. No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Heraclitus

#23. All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

Heraclitus

#24. We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

W. Somerset Maugham

#25. Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.

Kathryn L. Nelson

#26. He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.

Jack London

#27. You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

Mary Renault

#28. They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.

Sarah Ockler