100 Quotes About Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

The relationship between madness and genius has been commented on since Aristotle.

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

I like Aristotle, but I don’t agree with his cosmological argument about god.

It is difficult to be enthusiastic about Aristotle, because it was difficult for him to be enthusiastic about anything.His motto is nil admirari - to admire or marvel at nothing.

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.