Arithmetic Quotes - Page 6

• To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Past, Spontaneity

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• There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

  John Ruskin

  Latin, Power, Drawing

  John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.4

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• You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Mistake, Sleep

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Zero, Men, Political

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

  David Mamet

  Grief, Loss, Odds

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• Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Political, Economy, Guides

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.188

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• Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Interest, Subjects

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.191, Penguin

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• In addition to its use in arithmetic and science, the Hindu-Arabic number system is the only genuinely universal language on Earth, apart perhaps for the Windows operating system, which has achieved the near universal adoption of a conceptually and technologically poor product by the sheer force of market dominance.

  Keith Devlin

  Numbers, Adoption, Use

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• Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Stars, Foam

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Stars, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Statistics, Physics, Infinite

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!

  J. C. Watts

  Children, Writing, School

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

  Alain de Botton

  Ambition, Simple, Destiny

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• I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

  Bill Nye

  People, Intimidated

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

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• What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.

  Colin Firth

  Two, America, Bullets

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Heart, Division

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Children, Men

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• Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Simple, Mirrors

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• Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

  Kathryn Lasky

  Study, Happens, Knows

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

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• Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

  Mason Cooley

  Selfishness, Doe, Charity

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• For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

  Thomas Browne

  Lasts, Sin, Figures

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• Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

  William E. Gladstone

  Class, Roots, Kingdoms

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• Arithmetic has began to totter.

  Gottlob Frege

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