Aristotle Quotes

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.- Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.- Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.- Aristotle

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.- Aristotle

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.- Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.- Aristotle

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.- Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.- Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.- Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.- Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.- Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.- Aristotle

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

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

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.- Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle

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

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

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.- Aristotle

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

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.- Aristotle

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.- Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.- Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.- Aristotle

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.- Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer.- Aristotle

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

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.- Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.- Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.- Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.- Aristotle