Best Aristotle Quotes
1- “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” ~ Aristotle
2- “Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” ~ Aristotle
3- “The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ~ Aristotle
4- “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ~ Aristotle
5- “Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.” ~ Aristotle
6- “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” ~ Aristotle
7- “Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing.” ~ Aristotle
8- “Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.” ~ Aristotle
9- “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” ~ Aristotle
10- “Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.” ~ Aristotle
11- “Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.” ~ Aristotle
12- “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” ~ Aristotle
13- “A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.” ~ Aristotle
14- “Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.” ~ Aristotle
15- “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle
16- “Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.” ~ Aristotle
17- “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.” ~ Aristotle
18- “Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.” ~ Aristotle
19- “The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.” ~ Aristotle
20- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle
21- “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.” ~ Aristotle
22- “Character is revealed through action.” ~ Aristotle
23- “Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind” ~ Aristotle
24- “What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” ~ Aristotle
25- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ~ Aristotle
26- “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” ~ Aristotle
27- “The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.” ~ Aristotle
28- “The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.” ~ Aristotle
29- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
30- “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” ~ Aristotle
31- “Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.” ~ Aristotle
32- “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” ~ Aristotle
33- “It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.” ~ Aristotle
34- “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.” ~ Aristotle
35- “Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.” ~ Aristotle
36- “The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.” ~ Aristotle
37- “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” ~ Aristotle
38- “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” ~ Aristotle
39- “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” ~ Aristotle
40- “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.” ~ Aristotle
41- “Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.” ~ Aristotle
42- “There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.” ~ Aristotle
43- “Through discipline comes freedom.” ~ Aristotle
44- “When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.” ~ Aristotle
45- “A friend of everyone is a friend of no one” ~ Aristotle
46- “We can’t learn without pain.” ~ Aristotle
47- “At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose” ~ Aristotle
48- “The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it” ~ Aristotle
49- “The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.” ~ Aristotle
50- “Fortune favours the bold.” ~ Aristotle
