Quotes About Claudius Ptolemy

#1. To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Nate Silver

#3. Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Plautus

#4. You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.

Lauren Beukes

#5. And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

Harvey Korman

#6. It's all so beautiful ... the spring ... and books and music and fires ... Why aren't they enough?

Kathleen Norris

#7. Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

Meg Cabot

#8. venture capital funding in robotics is growing at a steep rate. It more than doubled in just three years, from $160 million in 2011 to $341 million in 2014.

Alec J. Ross

#9. To find is the thing.

Pablo Picasso

#10. It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#12. I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

Leon Festinger

#13. Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Giambattista Vico

#14. Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

Patrick Rothfuss