Innumeracy Paulos Quotes & Sayings

Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has.
"Why did you do that?" I ask.
He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it."
Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it."
He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope ... I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted. — Libba Bray

To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! ... Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it! — Neal A. Maxwell

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. — Sun Tzu

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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

I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut. — Donatella Versace

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! — H. Rider Haggard

Hakkai: Your footwork is lacking.
Gojyo: It's hard to control such long, sexy gams. — Kazuya Minekura

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone — Tom Rath

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down. — Peter Shepherd

Are you keeping anything else from me?"
"I'm keeping a lot of things from you."
"Like?"
"Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me. — Becca Fitzpatrick

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love. — Margaret George

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. — Ice-T

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