Subtraction Quotes

29 Subtraction quotes by 23 unique authors

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. — Meister Eckhart
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… — Thomas Nagel
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… — Jeremiah Burroughs
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is… — John Pawson
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want. — Umberto Eco
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia… — Fatih Birol
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical… — Paola Antonelli
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words. — Neal A. Maxwell
The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. — Henry David Thoreau
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution. — J C Ryle
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… — George Eliot
Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction. — Donald Rumsfeld
"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… — Lewis Carroll
"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if… — Lewis Carroll
"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen,… — Lewis Carroll
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction. — Meister Eckhart
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. — Mae West

Who Wrote These Subtraction Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 29 Subtraction Quotes as follows: