"What we expect, that we find...." - Quote by Aristotle
What we expect, that we find.
More by Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.”
“Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.”
More on Expectation
“When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.”
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
More on Perception
“Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.”
“Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.”
“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”