Aristotle Quotes

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. - Aristotle

Wit is cultured insolence. - Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. - Aristotle

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love. - Aristotle

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. - Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. - Aristotle

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations. - Aristotle

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. - Aristotle

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle. - Gilbert Murray

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. - Aristotle