Book Quote by Charles Darwin

The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents…

— David Roochnik

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization.

— Stacey Abrams

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of…

— Allan Bloom

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to…

— Samuel Smiles

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all…

— Richard Dawkins

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…

— Gilbert Murray

Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all…

— Ben Jonson

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle”

— Greg Iles