I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
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Galileo GalileiQuoted in Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins (1961); no primary source
About Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and physicist often called the father of modern science. (1564-1642)
More from Galileo Galilei
- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
- In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.Third letter on sunspots (1612), as translated in Arago (1859)
- 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.Quoted in Stillman Drake, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957)
More quotes on learning and wisdom
- When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.Confucius
- They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.Confucius
- Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.Confucius
- To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.Lao Tzu
- Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.Seneca
- Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.Epictetus
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