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Galileo Galilei

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Biography - Galileo Galilei:

Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1642
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei


Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Ich habe noch nie einen Mann getroffen, der so unwissend war, dass ich nichts von ihm lernen konnte.
Galileo Galilei

French
Je n'ai jamais rencontré d'homme si ignorant qu'il n'eut quelque chose à m'apprendre.
Galileo Galilei



See also 

See also...



When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations



Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy / 





It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
Hermann Hesse / 






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Quotes for: ignorance


Quotes

Quotes about ignorance:


The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues / 





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





All I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates / 





Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
François Rabelais / 





I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato / 






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Quotes

Galileo Galilei also said...


Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei - The Assayer / 





Doubt is the father of invention.
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 - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems / 







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