Aristotle on quotations

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849