Galileo Galilei Quotes

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.