Aristotle Quotes :
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“The soul never thinks without a picture.”
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
“The secret to humor is surprise.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”
“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
“Change in all things is sweet.”
“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
“The law is reason, free from passion.”
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.”
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.”
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
“In making a speech, one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third, the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.”
“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“To love someone is to identify with them.”
“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
“The aim of the wise is to avoid pain.”
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
“We must not listen to those who urge us to think human thoughts, since we are human, and mortal thoughts, since we are mortal, but must put on immortality as much as possible and do all we can to live according to the highest thing in us.”
“Wit is well-bred insolence.”
“The life of money-making is one undertaken by compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.”
“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
“The soul never thinks without a picture.”
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
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