Divisible Quotes

#1. If a number's individual digits sum to a number that is divisible by three, then it too is divisible by three.

Amor Towles

#2. The actuality of these spiritual qualities is thus imprisoned, though their potentiality be not quite destroyed; and thus a crass, extended, impenetrable, passive, divisible, unintelligent substance is generated, which we call matter.Cheyn.Phil. Prin.

Samuel Johnson

#3. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean Guitton

#4. Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

Lin Biao

#5. Specifically, Aristotle claims that no spatial extension (e.g. the intercurb interval AB) is 'actually infinite,' but that all such extensions are 'potentially infinite' in the sense of being infinitely divisible.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

#7. The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

George Sheehan

#8. We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Julian Bond

#10. It is a scientific fact that time is infinitely divisible, that each moment contains within it the fragments of a thousand others, and each of them can be splintered into a thousand more, and so on and so on.

Daniel Polansky

#11. Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable ...

Christian Nestell Bovee

#12. The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

Donella Meadows

#13. Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside.

Russell M. Nelson

#14. In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. The griding sword with discontinuous wound Pass'd through him, but th' Ethereal substance clos'd Not long divisible, and from the gash A stream of Nectarous humor issuing flow'd Sanguin, such as Celestial Spirits may bleed, And all his Armour staind ere while so bright.

John Milton

#16. All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

John Ruskin

#17. In everything continuous and divisible, it is possible to grasp the more, the less, and the equal, and these either in reference to the thing itself, or in relation to us.

Aristotle.

#18. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.

Sylvia Nasar

#19. Now we say that (a) the continuous is one or that (b) the indivisible is one, or (c) things are said to be 'one', when their essence is one and the same, as 'liquor' and 'drink'. If (a) their One is one in the sense of continuous, it is many, (10) for the continuous is divisible ad infinitum.

Aristotle.

#20. You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

Helen Kieran Reilly

#21. The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

Clive Sinclair

#22. Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#23. Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

Norm MacDonald

#24. The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Aristotle.

#25. I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.

Dana Spiotta

#26. The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

James C. Maxwell

#27. So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children
as if justice were divisible.

Marian Wright Edelman

#28. The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

Philip Guedalla

#29. Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Robert Bringhurst

#30. Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter ... I have chosen the word "atom" to signify these ultimate particles.

John Dalton