Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
-
-
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEI -
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEI -
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEI -
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEI -
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEI -
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
GALILEO GALILEI -
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.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEI -
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEI -
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI -
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEI







