Shakuntala Devi Quotes

• Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Math, Science, Numbers

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• Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Life, Numbers, Paper

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• Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

  Shakuntala Devi

  School, Degrees, Truth About Life

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• If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Brain, Use, Body

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• Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Children, Mathematics, Dread

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• You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Humans, Human Beings

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• I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Girl, Book, Numbers

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• Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Being Different, Doe, Immorality

  Shakuntala Devi (1977). “The world of homosexuals”, Lawrence Verry Incorporated

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• I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Thinking, Numbers, Relax

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