Top 42 Quotes About Subtraction
#2. So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition - given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at least not easily.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. I don't know when the boys
began to walk away with parts of myself
in their sticky hands; when loving
became a process of subtraction. Or why,
having given up what seems so much,
I'm willing to lose even more - erasing
all this body's known, relearning it with you.
Melissa Stein
#4. We don't carry in subtraction, however; we borrow, and that involves an intrinsically different mechanism - a messy back-and-forth kind of thing.
Charles Petzold
#5. in this job you really need to know only four things: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - and most of the time you can get by without division!" I
Emanuel Derman
#6. The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
Charles Dickens
#7. The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.
Thomas Nagel
#8. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#9. "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."
Lewis Carroll
#10. Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#11. We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission - what you would have, could have, and should have done - that break the heart of your heavenly Father.
Mark Batterson
#12. You may discover an easier way of counting, but for most people the subtraction-by-two method works just fine. If you just have to be different, here
Eddie Kantar
#13. Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
George Eliot
#14. I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
Mae West
#15. It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.
Natasha Tsakos
#16. Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. Eath, when it finally arrives, does so in a surprising fashion: it adds nothing to the room, not a light or a spark or a sound; death does not stir a molecule of the air. You know it arrives because there is suddenly a subtraction. You will feel it before you know it.
Augusten Burroughs
#18. Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn't matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back.
Erin Loechner
#19. There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#20. We middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.
Margaret Deland
#21. The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.
Creflo A. Dollar
#22. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
Michael Pollan
#23. Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld
#24. Somethings you know right away to be final- when you lose your last baby tooth ... Other times, you have to work out the milestone via subtraction, a math you do to assign significance, like when I figured out that I'd just blown through my last-ever wednesday with Mom on the day after she died.
Karen Russell
#25. Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life.
Glen Duncan
#26. Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
Julian Barnes
#27. The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
Charles Lamb
#28. No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.
Rick Riordan
#29. Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J.C. Ryle
#30. Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said
Rick Riordan
#31. A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Mae West
#32. Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
Martin Amis
#33. Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
Neal A. Maxwell
#34. Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.
Martha Finley
#35. Because all of us are made not only of what we have but what we lost. And loss is not a subtraction. As an experience, it is an addition.
Augusten Burroughs
#36. Life is addition! Death is subtraction. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and Godlike. Imagine and feel yourself successful, and you must become successful. You are never a slave to circumstances, environment, or conditions.
Joseph Murphy
#37. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Julian Barnes
#38. Subtraction stories Accounts that explain "the secular" as merely the subtraction of religious belief, as if the secular is what's left over after we subtract superstition. In contrast, Taylor emphasizes that the secular is produced, not just distilled.
James K.A. Smith
#40. God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
Meister Eckhart
#41. If the past was the age of adding to one's mind, now is the age of subtracting what is in his mind. A person who subtracts his minds in this time will recover his original nature.
Woo Myung
#42. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?
Sherman Alexie
