# Quote accurate or no?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 3, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-accurate-or-no/552451 "2010-09-03T00:41:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bpelta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bpelta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bpelta)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-accurate-or-no/552451/1 "2010-09-03T00:41:48Z")

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I was wondering if this quote is accurate and if so, which work of Aristotle it comes from?

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” --Aristotle

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-accurate-or-no/552451/2 "2010-09-03T00:47:18Z")

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I don’t think Aristotle spoke English, so no.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-accurate-or-no/552451/3 "2010-09-03T00:55:58Z")

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This has been attributed to Aristotle so many times, yet nobody knows where he said it. Surely his works have been studied by so many scholars that someone should have pinned it down by now. My guess is that someone else made it up.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-accurate-or-no/552451/4 "2010-09-03T02:34:50Z")

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It doesn’t sound like something he would have said.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-accurate-or-no/552451/5 "2010-09-03T04:08:19Z")

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Well I for one never heard him say this.