Aristotle Quotes
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
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What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
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It is no easy task to be good.
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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.