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Misquotes people ask about

  1. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

    Not found. Credited to Aristotle. It is not in Aristotle’s works, and who first wrote it is not known.

  2. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

    Not found. Credited to Aristotle. It is not in Aristotle’s works, and who first wrote it is not known.

  3. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

    Not found. Credited to Aristotle. No source has been found for this sentence in Aristotle. It resembles the Delphic “know thyself”, but its wording and earliest printing remain untraced; related Aristotelian passages are not the same quotation.

  4. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

    Misattributed. Credited to Aristotle. Will Durant wrote it, not Aristotle.

  5. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

    Not found. Credited to Aristotle. It is not in Aristotle’s works, and who first wrote it is not known.

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