We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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