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Aristotle
- Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
- No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness
- Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach
- Happiness depends upon ourselves
- Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain
- To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work
- The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet
- He who has overcome his fears will truly be free
- Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well
- For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit
- Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead
- To perceive is to suffer
- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- The more you know, the more you know you don’t know
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light
- He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader
- Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something
- Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation
- Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
- To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others
- Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules
- If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out
- Bad people…are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit
- The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake
- The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more
- Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances
- 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
- They who love in excess also hate in excess
- We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace
- Even that some people try deceived me many times … I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust
- We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind
- Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal
- Happiness depends upon ourselves
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead
- Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in
- To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold
- Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing
- Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit
- It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil
- The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think
- The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it
- The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own
- Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden
- All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established
- Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do
- 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
- Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one
- The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice
- 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
- Your happiness depends on you alone
- Authority is no source for truth
- The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances
- 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
- The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
- The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning
- 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
- 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
- The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain
- The quality of life is determined by its activities
- It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
- Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves
- Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules