Aristotle Quotes

For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.

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• We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.

  

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

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• I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

  

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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

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• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

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• You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

  

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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

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• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  

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• I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

  

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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

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• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

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• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

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• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

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• You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

  

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• I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.

  

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• The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

  

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• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

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• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

  

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• Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

  

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• When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

  

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• Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

  

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• Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

  

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• For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.

  

  Aristotle
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