Mary Everest Boole Quotes

#1. Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.

Mary Everest Boole

#2. If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

Agnes Repplier

#3. Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Charles Mackay

#4. Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Mary Everest Boole

#5. She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

Kate Morton

#6. Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Stephen Crane

#7. I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them.

Don Cheadle

#8. You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Arianna Huffington

#9. Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Simon Sinek

#10. Scars might heal and we might forget about them in time, but they're permanent. Not even Jesus lost his scars.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,

Michel Chossudovsky

#12. The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

Mary Everest Boole

#13. Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.

D.L. Moody

#14. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame. The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped.

Khushwant Singh

#15. When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Jodi Picoult

#16. I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.

Zachary Taylor

#17. My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own witness, each with a separate version of culture and history, and the divine essential fire that is poetry itself.

Pat Conroy

#18. Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

Walter Russell