Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of education in discerning what requires proof and what does not.
Aristotle's quote emphasizes that a well-educated individual should possess the ability to understand the difference between concepts or claims that necessitate evidence and those that do not. This discernment is a hallmark of critical thinking and intellectual maturity, suggesting that education is not merely about acquiring knowledge but also about developing the ability to question and evaluate information critically.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of critical thinking in academia.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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