About Aristotle

Greek philosopher and student of Plato who wrote on ethics, logic and science. (384-322 BC)

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• For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, tr. W. D. Ross
• Any one can get angry, that is easy... but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, tr. W. D. Ross
• For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, tr. W. D. Ross
• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII
• When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII
• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Nicomachean Ethics, Book III

More quotes on learning and wisdom

• Young people need models, not critics.John Wooden
• You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.John Wooden
• You can observe a lot by watching.Yogi Berra
• Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee
• Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.Bruce Lee
• Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.Bruce Lee

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