You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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