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1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 2. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 3. “Excellence is never an accident.
She [Wisdom] teaches temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life. They are also found in other non-canonical scriptures like 4 Maccabees 1:18–19, which relates: Now the kinds of wisdom are right judgment, justice, courage, and self-control.
And, since Aristotle thinks that practical wisdom rules over the character excellences, exercising such excellences is one way to exercise reason and thus fulfill the human function. One common objection to Aristotle's function argument is that it uses descriptive or factual premises to derive conclusions about what is good. [14]
Aristotle also mentions several other traits: Gnome (good sense) – passing judgment, "sympathetic understanding" [4]: VI.11 Synesis (understanding) – comprehending what others say, does not issue commands; Phronesis (practical wisdom) – knowledge of what to do, knowledge of changing truths, issues commands [4]: VI.8
Plato was a teacher and friend of Aristotle. In some of his dialogues, Socrates proposes that phronēsis is a necessary condition for all virtue. [1] Being good is to be an intelligent or reasonable person with intelligent and reasonable thoughts. Having phronēsis allows a person to have moral or ethical strength. [2]
75 Best Stoic Quotes "You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” Maya Angelou quotes “Do the best you can until you know better.
Aristotle believed sophrosyne described "a mean with regard to pleasures," [12]: III.10 distinct from self-indulgence on the one hand, or perhaps anhedonia on the other. Like courage, sophrosyne is a virtue concerning our discipline of "the irrational parts of our nature" (fear, in the case of courage; desire, in the case of sophrosyne). [12]: