Aristotle Quotes

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Aristotle

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• Know
• Wonder
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• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Monster

• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • You
  • Know

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Women
  • Want
  • Know

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • You
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Years

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Book
  • Science
  • Technology

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Think
  • Know
  • Wise

• Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Career
  • Know
  • Simple

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.

  

  Arch Ward
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Forget

• We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Truth

• Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Myself
  • Doubt

• Among the questions considered nonjusticiable is the definition of an impeachable offense. Whatever Congress says is an impeachable offense is an impeachable offense.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Science
  • Know