Thinking Quotes by Aristotle

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

— Aristotle

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

— Aristotle

You should never think without an image.

— Aristotle

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

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

— Aristotle

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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

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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice…

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That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

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

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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a…

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We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of…

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That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it…

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Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable…

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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury…

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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to…

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science…

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and…

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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things…We ought rather to…

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Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they…

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What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than…

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Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always…

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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their…

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“We must not listen to those who advise us "being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts,"…

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Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that…

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It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate…

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Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient…

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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of…

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If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable…

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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for…

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,…

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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving.…

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the…

— Aristotle