Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Donald Trump

I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Abraham Lincoln

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Albert Einstein

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Alfred Korzybski

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Aldous Huxley

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Aldous Huxley

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Albert Einstein

The stupid are invincible.

Ali MacGraw

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Thomas F. Wilson

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Raymond Smullyan

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Isaac Newton

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Jerry McNerney

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Galileo Galilei

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Freeman Dyson

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.