Innumeracy Quotes & Sayings

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else. — Mae Whitman

A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others. — Milton Katselas

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy. — Daniel Tammet

He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly that nobody ever managed to put it together again; — Salman Rushdie

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal. — John Catsimatidis

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. — John Allen Paulos

We are not against the evil when our enemies are. — M.F. Moonzajer

Whatever you wanna drink girl, pick right now. If you can't hold your liquor, better quit right now. — Drake

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight." — Lynne Stewart

What keeps you from ... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? — Rainer Maria Rilke

A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives. — Douglas R. Hofstadter

Good-evening, Miss Stirling.
Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional.
Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours. — L.M. Montgomery

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. — May-Britt Moser

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.' — Michael Mandelbaum

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy
that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. — Gerd Gigerenzer

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. — Marguerite Moreau

Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain. — Natalie Tyler

Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want? — Tarek Saab