Aristotle Quotes

• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

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  Motivational, Wise, Intelligent

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  Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

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  Believe, Truth Is, Accepting

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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  Logical, Shoreline, Knows

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• The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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  Journey, Important Relationships, Knowing

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  It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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  Character, Evil, Choices

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

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  Meaningful, Goal, Life Is

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• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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  Missing, Problem, Lows

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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

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  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

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  Hearing, Fool, Nonsense

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• Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

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  Passion, Soul, Kind

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• We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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  Self, Excellence, Events

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• Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

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  Firsts, Virtue

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

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  War, Mean, Men

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• Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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  Character, May, Lost

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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  Doubt

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• Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

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  Flower, Humility, Humble

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• Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

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  Love, Heart, Giving

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

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  Giving, Democracy, Republic

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• Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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  Soul, Quality, Function

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• Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

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  Unity, Division

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• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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  Philosophical, Class, Perfect

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• The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

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  Practice, Skills

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