Comforting Quote by Franz Kafka

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

— Erskine Bowles

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret…

— Peter Greenaway

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Mathematics doesnt care about those beyond the numbers.

— Dejan Stojanovic

We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted…

— Lynn Steen

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

— Bill Nye

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

— Ada Lovelace

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

— Angus Deaton

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson