Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Philip Tod

Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise.

Barry Long

Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

Aidan White

Media organizations and journalists' families face a wall of silence and an unfeeling bureaucracy that refuses to give clear and credible answers to questions.

Evan Bayh

Of course, it's a matter of courtesy. Like many of my colleagues, I'm interested in what he has to say, and we won't know that until he's asked and answers the questions.

Lawrence Fisher

No one questioned the investigation 10 years ago, but there are enough holes being discovered now and obvious questions that weren't posed to make me want the answers now.

Michele Jackson

No one ever gave us any answers as to why he had the stroke.

Igor Ivanov

Must the UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors continue their work in Iraq in the interest of a political settlement? Have all the necessary conditions to that end been met? Russia answers yes to that question. The conditions are there. The inspectors must continue their inspections. And this is a position shared by the overwhelming majority of states in the world, including within the Security Council of the United Nations.

John Barlow

New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's permanent institutions of both law and expectation.

Harold Koenig

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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.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.