Aristotle Quotes

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

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

"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."

"To perceive is to suffer."

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

"He who hath many friends hath none."

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

"I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

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

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