Aristotle Quotes about Wisdom

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle

Life, Success, Wisdom

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Through discipline comes freedom.

Aristotle

Inspiring, Wisdom, Freedom

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

Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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

Aristotle

Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Aristotle

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Men, Knowing

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

Friendship, Fake Friends, Wisdom

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Moving, Responsibility

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Men, Attention

Aristotle,, Sir Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley (2009). “The Politics”, p.42, Oxford University Press

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Philosophical, Justice

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Good Life, Acquisition

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Believe, Mean

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

Aristotle

Wisdom, Men, Use

Aristotle Quotes about Wisdom

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