Quotes by Mathematicians - Page 4

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.
Sir Arthur Eddington
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason) but upon that department that is deep and sure which is instinct.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
Alfred North Whitehead
In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Pythagoras
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.
Pascal
Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom gloom sorrow chagrin resentment and despair.
Blaise Pascal
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.
Blaise Pascal
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Thales
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.
Omar Khayyám
I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person nation or creed.
Bertrand Russell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand Russell
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end.
Omar Khayyám
The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Blaise Pascal
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
Charles Sanders Peirce
There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyám
The present is great with the future
Baron von Leibnitz
Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
Alfred North Whitehead
If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
Blaise Pascal
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Bertrand Russell
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Omar Khayyám
One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Omar Khayyám
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
Faith is a gift of God.
Blaise Pascal
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
Blaise Pascal
Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.
Blaise Pascal
Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.
Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
Bertrand Russell
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Pascal
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
Alfred North Whitehead
Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.
Omar Khayyám
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell