Aristotle Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Adventure is worthwhile.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

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.

Wit is educated insolence.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.