Benjamin Peirce Quotes

#1. Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

Andrew Johnson

#2. You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

#3. Halloween - the day when we could pretend to be whatever we wanted - seemed to be letting everyone be who they really were.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.

Lois Lowry

#5. I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.

Fredrik Backman

#6. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

Alison Eastwood

#7. There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.

Benjamin Peirce

#8. Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

#9. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

#10. What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

Benjamin Peirce

#11. Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.

Benjamin Peirce

#12. Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

Moby

#13. But now I see there's no such thing as "a" woman, "one" woman. There are dozens inside every one of them. I probably should have figured this out sooner, but what child can see the women inside her mom, what with all the Motherness blocking out everything else?

Kelly Corrigan

#14. Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Emily Bronte

#15. When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

Kristin Armstrong