5 Aristotle Quotes on Practice

Aristotle quotes on practice

49. For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

51. It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

64. With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

95. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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160. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.