"Some men are just as sure of..." - Quote by Aristotle
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
More by Aristotle
“The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.”
“...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.”
“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms”
More on Truth
“When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?”
“The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.”
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
More on Knowledge
“The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.”
“Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.”
“We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.”