Quotes from Aristotle

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

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

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

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.