Aristotle on Wisdom Quotes

"He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader."

"The coward is a person who is prone to despair, for he fears everything."

"Fear makes men capable of thought."

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"Greatness of soul seems to be a sort of ornament of the virtues; for it makes them greater, and it is not found without them."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"The man who is beyond measure confident about what is fearful is rash."

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

"There can be no peace where there is no friendship among citizens."

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

"That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results. 982a16, Complete Works, vol. 2, p. 1554"

"Greatness of soul is a sort of ornament of the virtues."

"We make war that we may live in peace."

"Death is the most terrible of all things; for it is the end."

"Nature does nothing in vain."

"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances."

"To feel fear is a certain kind of pain."

"True peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice."

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

"The things that we fear are those that appear to have great power of destroying us."

"Conflict is the result of injustice; peace is the result of virtue."

"It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace be not well organized."

"We do not fear all evils, for instance, we do not fear to be unjust or slow-witted."

"The preservation of peace is the highest duty of the statesman."

"A man who is a coward is called so because he fears what he ought not to fear."

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead."

"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."

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

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

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