Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Bill Cosby

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Carl Sagan

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Kofi Annan

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Norman Mailer

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Mason Cooley

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Shane Koyczan

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Eric Hoffer

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

James Richardson

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Auguste Comte

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Alfred Stieglitz

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

Gustav Heinemann

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

Berkeley Breathed

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

D. H. Lawrence

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

Suzanne Fields

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Arthur Rimbaud

. . . be absolute moderne.

Mary Schapiro

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mario Testino

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.