--- title: "7 Divided Quotes By Aristotle" description: "7 Divided quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Divided sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/aristotle-78_divided_obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the_25567.png" --- > [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/aristotle-78_divided_obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the_25567.png) > [Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/youth-should-be-kept-strangers-to-all-that-is-bad-and-especially-to/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/256/aristotle-78_age_youth-should-be-kept-strangers-to-all-th_565537.jpg) > [We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/we-have-divided-the-virtues-of-the-soul-into-two-groups-the-virtues/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ff/aristotle-78_character_we-have-divided-the-virtues-of-the-soul_824695.png) > [One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/one-kind-of-justice-is-that-which-is-manifested-in-distributions-of/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5a/aristotle-78_constitution_one-kind-of-justice-is-that-which-is-man_1151022.jpg) > [Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/now-the-soul-of-man-is-divided-into-two-parts-one-of-which-has-a/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/aristotle-78_able_now-the-soul-of-man-is-divided-into-two_2316233.jpg) > [Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/men-are-divided-between-those-who-are-as-thrifty-as-if-they-would/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/aristotle-78_dies_men-are-divided-between-those-who-are-as_2371435.png) > [Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/persuasion-is-achieved-by-the-speaker-s-personal-character-when-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/766/aristotle-78_absolutely_persuasion-is-achieved-by-the-speaker-s_2658926.png) ## Other authors on Divided ## More by Aristotle > [The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-knowledge-of-the-soul-admittedly-contributes-greatly-to-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/young-men-have-strong-passions-and-tend-to-gratify-them/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-body-is-at-its-best-between-the-ages-of-thirty-and-thirty-five/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-ensouled-is-distinguished-from-the-unsouled-by-its-being-alive/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/although-it-may-be-difficult-in-theory-to-know-what-is-just-and-equal/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-true-forms-of-government-therefore-are-those-in-which-the-one-or/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All men by nature desire to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-men-by-nature-desire-to-know/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/give-a-man-a-fish-you-feed-him-for-a-day-give-a-man-a-poisoned-fish/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-man-who-confers-a-favour-would-rather-not-be-repaid-in-the-same/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-does-not-consist-in-pastimes-and-amusements-but-in-virtuous/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-learn-is-a-natural-pleasure-not-confined-to-philosophers-but/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/every-virtue-is-a-mean-between-two-extremes-each-of-which-is-a-vice/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/divided/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "7 Divided Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/aristotle-78_divided_obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the_25567.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/aristotle-78_divided_obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the_25567.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/aristotle-78_divided_obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the_25567.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. 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