Vincenzo Galilei quotes

Vincenzo Galilei quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.”
-- Vincenzo Galilei

#Truth Quotes #Support Quotes #Wish Quotes

“In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

Source : Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."
“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”
“I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.”
“The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'”
“You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.”
“Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.”
“As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.”

You may also like:

Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist
Archimedes
Mathematician
Aristotle
Philosopher
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Edwin Powell Hubble
Astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli
Physicist
Francis Bacon
Former Lord Chancellor
Galileo Galilei
Physicist
Giordano Bruno
Philosopher
Isaac Newton
Physicist
Johannes Kepler
Mathematician
Leonardo da Vinci
Painter
Marie Curie
Physicist
Martin Luther
Monk
Michelangelo
Sculptor
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician
Rene Descartes
Philosopher
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
Tycho Brahe
Nobleman