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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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