Aristotle Quotes

139 Aristotle quotes by 116 unique authors

On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of… — Robert Bellarmine
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. — Samuel Johnson
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.' — Sophia Loren
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed. — Diogenes
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. — Samuel Johnson
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The… — Marina Endicott
The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available… — Unknown Author
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well… — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In… — Timothy Leary
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as… — Ambrose Bierce
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… — Thomas Hobbes
Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked. — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a… — Gilbert Murray
As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and… — Georges St-Pierre
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place… — Ibn Khaldun
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. — David Graeber
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar… — Mark Steel
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses… — Michel de Certeau
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. — Simeon Strunsky
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle… — Lee Smolin
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times… — Julien Benda
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. — Alfred Marshall

Who Wrote These Aristotle Quotes

116 authors contributed a total of 139 Aristotle Quotes, led by these top contributors: