The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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