Galileo Galilei Quotes

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Consult with the ignorant as with the wise.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.