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Aristotle – educated mind

Mind Quote / Chaikidiki, Greece / 384 BC – 322 BC / Photographer - Girolamo Zenari / Photograph - sculpture at Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Olympia, Greece / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.

– Aristotle

 

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