You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEII’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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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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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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