Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”

— Aristotle

102. “A promise made must be a promise kept.”

— Aristotle

103. “We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

104. “Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.”

— Aristotle

105. “95% of everything you do is the result of habit.”

— Aristotle

106. “At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.”

— Aristotle

107. “We can’t learn without pain.”

— Aristotle

108. “Teaching is the highest form of understanding.”

— Aristotle

109. “He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.”

— Aristotle

110. “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.”

— Aristotle

111. “The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.”

— Aristotle

112. “The quality of life is determined by its activities.”

— Aristotle

113. “Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

115. “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

— Aristotle

116. “True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.”

— Aristotle

117. “The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.”

— Aristotle

118. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”

— Aristotle

119. “Happiness is the highest good.”

— Aristotle

120. “The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”

— Aristotle

121. “The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.”

— Aristotle

122. “Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.”

— Aristotle

123. “Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.”

— Aristotle

124. “We work to earn our leisure.”

— Aristotle

125. “The hardest victory is the victory over self.”

— Aristotle

126. “What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

— Aristotle

127. “Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”

— Aristotle

128. “Law is order, and good law is good order.”

— Aristotle

129. “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

— Aristotle

130. “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

— Aristotle

131. “The soul never thinks without a picture.”

— Aristotle

132. “Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.”

— Aristotle

133. “To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”

— Aristotle

134. “The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.”

— Aristotle

135. “Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.”

— Aristotle

136. “Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.”

— Aristotle

137. “A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.”

— Aristotle

138. “The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”

— Aristotle

139. “We become brave by doing brave acts.”

— Aristotle

140. “The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...”

— Aristotle

141. “To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.”

— Aristotle

142. “Fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

— Aristotle

143. “Greed has no boundaries.”

— Aristotle

144. “If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.”

— Aristotle

145. “Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.”

— Aristotle

146. “Love is the cause of unity in all things.”

— Aristotle

147. “We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.”

— Aristotle

148. “There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.”

— Aristotle

149. “There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.”

— Aristotle

150. “Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.”

— Aristotle