God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn’t matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back.” — Erin Loechner Copy Share Image
“If the past was the age of adding to one's mind, now is the age of subtracting what is in his mind.… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition—given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
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… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
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?"… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education.… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication? — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus… — Jameis Winston Copy Share Image
My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image