It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. -- Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
-- Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-- Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
-- Aristotle
All men by nature desire to know.
-- Aristotle
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
-- Aristotle
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
-- Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
-- Aristotle
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw
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