{"id":2161,"date":"2010-09-22T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2010-09-22T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:29:44","slug":"quote-maybe-aristotle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2010\/09\/quote-maybe-aristotle\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote: (maybe) Aristotle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it is. But I cannot find a source for the quote. It is listed as unsourced on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Talk:Aristotle\">Wikiquote <\/a>(which is a pretty good indication of it being a misquotation). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.dk\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=HFs&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;q=It+is+the+mark+of+an+educated+mind+to+be+able+to+entertain+a+thought+without+accepting+it.&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g3&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=\">A google search<\/a> does not reveal a source but only the usual suspects, that is, sites that spread quotations with no regard for their sources. Kennehtamy thinks that it is Aristotle but I couldn&#8217;t find it by searching through neither <em>Politics<\/em> or <em>Ethics<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Indeed it is. But I cannot find a source for the quote. It is listed as unsourced on Wikiquote (which is a pretty good indication of it being a misquotation). A google search does not reveal a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1604,1605],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-educated-mind","tag-mark-of","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}