Aristotle best quotes

ARISTOTLE BEST QUOTES

1. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

2. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

3. In teaching others we teach ourselves.

4. The secret in education lies in respecting the student

5. who opens a school door, closes a prison.

6. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

7. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

8. He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

9. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

10. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

11. 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.

12. It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.

13. Man is by nature a political animal.


14. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

15. The law is reason, free from passion.


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16. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

17. personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.


18. Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.


19. Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

20. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

21. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.


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

23. Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

24. If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

25. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

26. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

27. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

28. All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

29. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

30. It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.




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31. Most people would rather give than get affection.

32. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.


33. No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.


34. No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

35. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

36. So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

37. It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

38. Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

39. All men by nature desire to know
40. This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

41. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

42. It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

43. The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

44. The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.





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45. The end of labor is to gain leisure.

46. We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.


47. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.


48. Memory is the scribe of the soul.


49. Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.


50. In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.


51. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

52. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.


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

54. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.


55. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

56. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.





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57. Either a beast or a god.

58. The secret to humor is surprise.

59. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

60. Happiness is a sort of action.

61. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

62. Without friends no one would choose to live.

63. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

64. The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

65. Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

66. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

67. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

68. Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

69. The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only on.

70. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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

72. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.