Aristotle
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12 quotes we’ve traced to Aristotle
“All men by nature desire to know”
Verified“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all”
Verified“For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods”
Verified“Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue”
Verified“Hope is the dream of a waking man”
Verified“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man”
Verified“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”
Attributed“Happiness depends upon ourselves”
Disputed“Tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em; next, tell 'em; next, tell 'em what you told 'em”
Disputed“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”
Disputed“There are three sorts of people: the living, the dead, and those at sea”
Disputed“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society”
DisputedNot actually Aristotle
Often misattributed to Aristotle
Famous lines widely pinned on Aristotle that we’ve traced to someone else.
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others”
actually Winston Churchill
“Happiness depends upon ourselves”
actually J. A. K. Thomson
“It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it”
actually No verified author
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”
actually A traditional Persian proverb
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit”
actually Will Durant
“Tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em; next, tell 'em; next, tell 'em what you told 'em”
actually Unknown — an anonymous preacher
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
actually Will Durant
“The place where your talent meets the world's needs is the job God has in mind for you”
actually Marcus Bach
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”
Unknown — a 20th-century coinage falsely pinned on Aristotle
“There are three sorts of people: the living, the dead, and those at sea”
actually Anacharsis
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing”
actually Elbert Hubbard
“Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach”
actually George Bernard Shaw
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society”
actually Unknown — a modern fabrication
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
actually Will Durant
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