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Quote DB :: Authors :: Aristotle :: View Quote View Quote "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Aristotle Listed in: Education, Ideas Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.9  Rate Quote 42 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Aristotle "Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life." "I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." Top 5 quotes from Education, Ideas "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

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