Top 22 Pythagoreans Quotes
#1. Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship.
Reginald Hill
#2. Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.
Giordano Bruno
#3. The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Aristotle.
#5. They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
Carl Sagan
#6. The Pythagoreans, you have to remember, were extremely weird. Their philosophy was a chunky stew of things we'd now call mathematics, things we'd now call religion, and things we'd now call mental illness.
Jordan Ellenberg
#7. Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.
Tristram Stuart
#8. In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,
fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. The last time I saw my mother, she'd turned her back on me like I was the bullet.
Nova Ren Suma
#10. More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.
Adrian McKinty
#12. I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better ...
Chris Bohjalian
#14. You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.
Reid Hoffman
#15. It is better to forgive and lose than to face the consequences.
Angela Brown
#16. If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.
Bryant Gumbel
#17. Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Walter Scott
#18. When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches
#20. The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
Neil Kinnock
#21. I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
Tatiana Maslany
#22. It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson
