Quote of Galileo Galilei - I have never met a man...
Biography - Galileo Galilei:
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1642
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: Italy
Born: 1564 - Died: 1642
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: Italy
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
Translation
(German, French)
Ich habe noch nie einen Mann getroffen, der so unwissend war, dass ich nichts von ihm lernen konnte.
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Quotes for: to learn
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Quotes about ignorance:
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.
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