You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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