Arithmetical Ability Quotes & Sayings

One person can't change the future. Do you know how many people and things are involved in every major event that happens? Sure, you might be able to change some of the minor aspects of a day, but ultimately things that are going to happen, if you go along a certain path, do happen. — Kasie West

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. — Maria Montessori

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide. — Farshad Asl

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls — John Greenleaf Whittier

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'. — Sun Tzu

[ ... ] if you don't know what you're running away from, chances are you'll bring it along anywhere you go. — Alice Walsh

In pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten fingers on which men learned to count, that is, to carry out the first arithmetical operation, may be anything else, but they are certainly not only objects that can be counted, but also the ability to exclude all properties of the objects considered other than their number-and this ability is the product of a long historical evolution based on experience. Like the idea of number, so the idea of form is derived exclusively from the external world, and does not arise in the mind as a product of pure thought. — Friedrich Engels

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life. — Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. — David Suzuki

When life is too much, roll with it, baby. — Steve Winwood

Dialogue is a token of genuine Christian love, because it indicates our steadfast resolve to rid our minds of the prejudices and caricatures that we may entertain about other people, to struggle to listen through their ears and look through their eyes so as to grasp what prevents them from hearing the gospel and seeing Christ, to sympathize with them in all their doubts, fears and "hang-ups." For such sympathy will involve listening, and listening means dialogue. It is once more the challenge of the incarnation, to renounce evangelism by inflexible slogans, and instead to involve ourselves sensitively in the real dilemmas that people face. — John R.W. Stott

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers. — Bill Holm

Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. — James Lee Burke