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Quotes By Aristotle

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

Aristotle

Freedom, Speech

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

Money, Society

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Aristotle

Fear, Freedom

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

Aristotle

Life, Society

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

Aristotle

Habits

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

Desire, Self, Victory

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To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

Appreciation, Experience, Nature

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Adversity, Education, Learning

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

Goals, Purpose, Wisdom

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We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

Aristotle

Action, Quality

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Death Valley National Park

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

Aristotle

Belief, Thinking, Truth

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Arches National Park

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

Aristotle

Criticism, Truth

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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Aristotle

Fortune, Wisdom

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Freedom, Liberty

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Lake Tahoe

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle

Choice

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Hawaii, Maui

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

Possibility

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Hawaii, Maui

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

Aristotle

Imagination, Vision, Visualize

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Bryce Canyon National Park

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Age, Education

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California, Napa Valley

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

Aristotle

Conflict, Education, Perception, Thinking

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Honduras, Roatan

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

Peace

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

Excellence, Happiness

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Hawaii, Maui

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

Excellence

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Baja Peninsula, Mexico

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Excellence, Habits

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Glacier National Park

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Dreams, Hope

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The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Aristotle

Accountability, Inspiration, Quality

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Utah

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Aristotle

Action, Perception, Persuasion

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible.

Aristotle

Communication, Persuasion, Public Speaking, Speech

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Yosemite National Park

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle

Character, Persuasion

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