The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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See now the power of truth.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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