Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
(1893–1971) Royal Air Force air marshal (1893-1971)
Christopher Hinton, undated recollection, according to page 449 https://books.google.ca/books?id=7h7aRGdorPoC&pg=PA449 of 2008 book "Austerity Britain" by David Kynaston
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Avicenna
(980–1037) medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher
"On Medicine, (c. 1020) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1020Avicenna-Medicine.html
Context: The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. And because health and sickness and their causes are sometimes manifest, and sometimes hidden and not to be comprehended except by the study of symptoms, we must also study the symptoms of health and disease. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Of these causes there are four kinds: material, efficient, formal, and final.
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.”
Galileo Galilei
(1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1935) by Dale Carnegie, p. 117; also paraphrased as "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself." Attributions are found as early as 1882.
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Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=h70_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA476&dq=You+cannot+teach+a+man+anything;+you+can+only+help+him+find+it+within+himself&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMI39Gmss_gyAIVRNRjCh1Q2wGN#v=onepage&q=%22You%20cannot%20teach%22&f=false
“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
(1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 50
Martin Luther
(1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Statement in defense of his writings at the Diet of Worms (19 April 1521), as translated in The Nature of Protestantism (1963) by Karl Heim, p. 78 Luther is often said to have declared, "Here I stand, I can do no other," before concluding with "God help me. Amen." However, there is no indication in the transcripts of the Diet or in eyewitness accounts that he ever said this. See "Disputed" section below.
Robert G. Ingersoll
(1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)