Quotes about Wisdom
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
— Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
— Aristotle
Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all.
— Aristotle
The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness
— Aristotle
Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;
— Aristotle
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
— Aristotle
Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.
— Aristotle
Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.
— Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.
— Aristotle
He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion; But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another Layeth it to heart;—he is a useless man.
— Aristotle