Aristotle Quotes

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle


It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. — Aristotle


Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. — Aristotle


Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle


Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle


Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle


Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle


The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle


The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle


Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle


The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. — Aristotle


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. — Aristotle


All men by nature desire to know. — Aristotle


Law is order, and good law is good order. — Aristotle


Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Aristotle


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


What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle


Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle


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


The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle


A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle


I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. — Aristotle


Nature does nothing uselessly. — Aristotle


Happiness is a state of activity. — Aristotle


To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. — Aristotle


Well begun is half done. — Aristotle


There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. — Aristotle