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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Galileo Galilei

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Greatness Inspiratioal One Liner Self Love Wisdom
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Heaven Holy Intend Teaching
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
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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Aware Knowledge Teaching
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember

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