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Aristotle Quotes

Greek - Philosopher | 384 BC - 322 BC

Well begun is half done.

Brainy Done Half Well Begun

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Genius Madness Never Without

Wit is educated insolence.

Intelligence Wit Educated Insolence

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Long Argument Complicated Rhetoric

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Hope Youth Quick Because Deceived

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Life Happiness Power Politics Glory

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Possibilities Improbable Preferred

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

More Whole Than Sum Parts

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Greatest Useful Virtues Most Those

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Live Friends Choose Without Would

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Persuasive Statement Because Either

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Thankful Grateful Thought Be Grateful

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