Aristotle Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

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.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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Common sense is not so common.

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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Wisdom at times is found in folly.

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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