Galileo Galilei Quotes

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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• Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Friend
  • Need
  • Well

• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Courage

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Enjoy
  • Looking

• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Ego
  • Self
  • Autobiography

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Money
  • Successful

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Real
  • Art
  • Beauty

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Person

• And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Person
  • Accident
  • Importantly

• When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Book
  • Criticism

• Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Conflict
  • Fault

• You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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