Rowan Atkinson vs. Aristotle
Read 9 entries attributed to Rowan Atkinson alongside 20 attributed to Aristotle. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 9 entries attributed to Rowan Atkinson alongside 20 attributed to Aristotle. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: philosophy, art, wisdom. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Rowan Atkinson, entry #7917: "I cry too much and I find it strange. It must be indicative of some issue within me that I’ve yet to identify. Whether it’s crowds or whether it’s people being nice… Hospitals mak…"
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #3: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Recorded year: 340 BCE.
Side-by-Side Comparison
Rowan Atkinson
1955
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian and writer. He first gained success on the sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), before going on to play the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–present).
"I cry too much and I find it strange. It must be indicative of some issue within me that I’ve yet to identify. Whether it’s crowds or whether it’s people bei…"
#philosophy"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things; like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. I remember …"
#time"I am getting older, and naturally has to get older with me, and that's why I've done him very little in recent years. Because I don't particularly want him t…"
#time"The victimisation of individuals or corporations or groups of people is a very dangerous and difficult development. The fact that careers can be ruined and r…"
#art"When presented with an audience or a camera, usually disappeared, but by no means all the time. I can show you some outtakes of Blackadder or The Thin Blue L…"
#time"It’s the age-old dilemma of being known for doing a certain thing in a certain way. And even if people think, “Well, we could cast him in this role,” then th…"
#philosophy"are so uncompromising in their view of the world, which is why they are such a fantastically rich source of comedy. They are so relentless and so clear in th…"
#humor"Personally I suspect that I am highly unlikely to be arrested for whatever laws exist to contain free expression, because of the undoubtedly privileged posit…"
#wisdom"All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them."
#religionAristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings span philosophy, science, and rhetoric.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
#Politics340 BCE
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
#Ethics340 BCE
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
#Human Nature"The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having contro…"
#nature"朴素使未受教育的人在面对大众演讲时比受过教育的人更有成效。It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
#life"For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought …"
#justice"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize; they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanc…"
#wisdom"Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and es…"
#nature"[U]niversal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense..."
#philosophy"Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing th…"
#friendship"It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it."
#knowledge"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing."
#knowledge"Hope is a waking dream."
#hope"...suppose α without weight, but β possessing weight; and let α pass over space γδ, but β in the same time pass over a space γε,—for that which has weight wi…"
#art"The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle.."
#philosophy"It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the…"
#philosophy"The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he i…"
#nature