Aristotle on Thinking Quotes

"The beginning of truth is the amazement at things."

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."

"Man is by nature a social animal."

"We cannot learn without pain."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have rather talked."

"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"All men by nature desire to know."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"The goal of the wise is to live in accordance with nature."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"Thinking is the most pleasant and best of all things."

"The soul is the first actuality of a natural body that has life potentially."

"Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul."

"The mind is the master of the man."

"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."

"Wit is educated insolence."

"The soul never thinks without a picture."

"Philosophy begins with wonder."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"A sense of wonder is the beginning of philosophy."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"The mind is in a sense all that it thinks."

"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

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

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

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

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."