User:GalGross~enwiki/Quotes

Collections of Sayings

 * Terence Tao's collection of quotes.

B

 * Bujold, Lois McMaster
 * Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time.

C

 * Campbell, Joseph
 * You see, when the world seems to be falling apart, stick to your own trajectory; hang onto your own ideals and find kindred spirits. That's the rule of life. And it's that life that survive the megadeath.

D

 * Davies, W.H.
 * Leisure


 * Descartes, René
 * The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries.

E

 * Erdős, Paul
 * Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.


 * Erasmus, Desiderius
 * When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

F

 * Frye, Northrop
 * It takes a good deal of maturity to see that every field of knowledge is the centre of all knowledge, and that it doesn't matter so much what you learn when you learn it in a structure that can expand into other structures.

H

 * Halmos, Paul
 * Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?
 * You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.
 * I love to do research, I want to do research, I have to do research, and I hate to sit down and begin to do research — I always try to put it off just as long as I can. ... .Isn't there something I can (must?) do first? Shouldn't I sharpen my pencils perhaps?
 * When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.


 * Huxely, Thomas Henry
 * Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

of attack prove their worth by hitting back .''
 * Hein, Piet
 * '' Problems worthy

K

 * Kipling, Rudyard
 * If—

L

 * Lessing, Doris
 * No. I'm compulsive. And I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I'm not joking. It has to be. Because if I've finished a book, and this wonderful release, which I'm now feeling-- it's off, it's in a parcel, it's gone to a publisher. Bliss and happiness. I don't have to do anything. Nothing. I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life, I'm useless, I'm no good. Now, it's a fact that if I spend a day busy as a little kitten, racing around. I do this, I do that. But I haven't written, so it's a wasted day, and I'm no good. How do you account for that nonsense?

M

 * May, Rollo
 * To truly know and understand another's experiences, we must live them ourselves.


 * Miller, Adrienne
 * Nothing sets true believers doubting faster than a lack of reward for their faith.

P

 * Plutarch
 * Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
 * A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

R

 * Rényi, Alfréd
 * If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.


 * Roosevelt, Eleanor
 * One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
 * If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
 * One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
 * When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?


 * Russell, Bertrand
 * This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

S

 * Scott, Dave
 * Okay, Houston. As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature. Man must explore.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.''
 * Shakespeare
 * ''No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;

Anonymous Quotes

 * Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.

And oh! for a quiet hour, When care & strife and worry life, Have lost their dreaded power. ''
 * ''Oh! For a book, and a cozy nook,