Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.

Alexander Pope

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

Mindy Kaling

I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.