131 Famous Aristotle Quotes - Best Quotes on Life and Human (Part 1)
Wise men speak when they have st to say, fools...Aristotle quotes
131 Famous Aristotle Quotes - Best Quotes on Life and Human (Part 3)
Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was a student of Plato who in turn studied under Socrates. He was more empirically-minded than Plato or Socrates and is famous for rejecting Plato's theory of forms.
1.Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
–Aristotle
2.For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
–Aristotle
3.Friendship is essentially a partnership.
–Aristotle
4.It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
–Aristotle
5.It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
–Aristotle
6.Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
–Aristotle
7.To love someone is to identify with them.
–Aristotle
8.A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
–Aristotle
9.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
–Aristotle
10.It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
–Aristotle
11.Law is order, and good law is good order.
–Aristotle
12.Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
–Aristotle
13.No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
–Aristotle
14.One swallow does not make a summer.
–Aristotle
15.The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
–Aristotle
16.There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
–Aristotle
17.We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
–Aristotle
18.We make war that we may live in peace.
–Aristotle
19.Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
–Aristotle
20.Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
–Aristotle
21.Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
–Aristotle
22.Man is by nature a political animal.
–Aristotle
23.We are what we repeatedly do.
–Aristotle
24.Evil draws men together.
–Aristotle
25.Wit is educated insolence.
–Aristotle
26.Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
–Aristotle
27.I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
–Aristotle
28.Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
–Aristotle
29.I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
–Aristotle
30.All men by nature desire knowledge.
–Aristotle
31.What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
–Aristotle
32.Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
–Aristotle
33.He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
–Aristotle
34.We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
–Aristotle
35.All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
–Aristotle
36.Change in all things is sweet.
–Aristotle
37.Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
–Aristotle
38.All proofs rest on premises.
–Aristotle
39.Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
–Aristotle
40.Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
–Aristotle
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