Jean Le Rond D'alembert Quotes

#1. Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#2. To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#3. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#4. According to her, I didn't have an ounce of tact. That simply wasn't true. It wasn't my fault that they were all incompetent asshats. "Are

Adele Abbott

#5. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#6. You're so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I'll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

James Dashner

#7. High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#8. The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#9. Push on and faith will catch up with you.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#10. In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#11. I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Steven Wright

#12. One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#13. I watched the Tyson-Holyfield fight with Stallone. I remember when Tyson bit him, Sly looked at me and said, 'I think he bit him'. I said, 'I think you're right, Rock.'

Stephen Lang

#14. Her eyes went so wide they nearly bulged. It was probably wrong of me to find that amusing. Or to want to take a photo of Nicholas with his fangs out and wearing a black cape lined with red satin and then hang it over my pillow in a heart-shaped frame.

Alyxandra Harvey

#15. Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#16. I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#17. Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#18. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.

Phillis Wheatley

#19. If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

Paul Bowles

#21. The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#22. Just go on..and faith will soon return.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#23. Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#24. When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, Tomorrow. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll do something about it. And they said that until they died.

Lauren Oliver