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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is gene...more

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is gene...more

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they ...more

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in math...more

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to m...more

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is gene...more