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Knowledge Quotes by Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those…
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- All men by nature desire knowledge.
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
- At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was…
- It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we…
- Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
- Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
- To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
- Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
- It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the…
- The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in…
- Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
- In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not…
- Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
- For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such…
- All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
- All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their…
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius