Quotes About Knowledge Aristotle

#1. Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

Will Cuppy

#2. Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Aristotle.

#3. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle.

#4. It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Aristotle.

#5. A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

Aristotle.

#6. The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Aristotle.

#7. It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle.

#8. 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.

Shawn Achor

#9. Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a thing which might have a certain goodness in particular circumstances. That is to say, if evil is present, pain at recognition of the evil, being a kind of knowledge, is relatively good.

C.S. Lewis

#10. What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge,

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Aristotle.

#12. For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

Aristotle.

#13. All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle.

#14. Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

Aristotle.

#15. Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Aristotle.

#16. It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Jostein Gaarder

#17. I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

William Harvey

#18. Live as if you are the Jesus and learn as if you are the Aristotle.

Debasish Mridha

#19. For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint,15 knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit.

Aristotle.

#20. When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: All human beings by nature desire to know.

Matthew B. Crawford

#21. The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

Aristotle.

#22. Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Aristotle.

#23. All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Aristotle.

#24. Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Aristotle.

#25. How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

Aristotle.

#26. To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Aristotle.

#27. The Greeks, as in the case of Aristotle, whose interpretation of African teachings would, some have said, lead to the foundation of Islam as as a religion, would steal what texts they could, burn the rest and destroy the very place from which all knowledge first came from.

Rick Duncan

#28. Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

Aristotle.

#29. Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.

Aristotle.

#30. Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Samuel Smiles

#31. There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.

Aristotle.

#32. The ultimate end ... is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Aristotle.

#33. The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

Aristotle.

#34. In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Aristotle.

#35. Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Aristotle.

#36. It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

Aristotle.

#37. We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.

Gregory J.E. Rawlins