Aristotle –“The Father of Western Philosophy” was a Greek philosopher and called the most learned scholar of his time who has knowledge of about every aspects of human life.
Famous Quotes of Aristotle:
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Hope is a waking dream.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
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.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Each man judges well the things he knows.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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