Top 1292 Quotes & Sayings by Aristotle - Page 6

What we expect, that we find.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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

Worms are the intestines of the earth.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Perception starts with the eye.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

We work to earn our leisure.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

We are what we frequently do.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

A friend is another I.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

The intention makes the crime.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

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

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.