20 quotes from Aristotle That Will Shape Your Character

Giorgos Pantsios
3 min readOct 7, 2020

It’s always a good time for self-improvement

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The place where he taught Alexander the Great lies couple of minutes away from me.

A student of Plato.

But the student became a teacher.

The fields he covered are so many that I will just copy-paste them from Wikipedia because I'm THAT amazed.

His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics.

Yes, all these words are Greek, and you know them all. Yes, he covered a big portion of everything we know so far. The least we can do is learn a little bit more.

As I did with the other “20 quotes” articles, I’ll highlight the quotes I inherited in my life. Maybe you should highlight your favorites too.

  1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
  2. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
  3. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
  4. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
  5. “Happiness depends upon

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Giorgos Pantsios
Giorgos Pantsios

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