The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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