Math Quote by John Gay Download Open image “Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.” — John Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Math Mathematical Mathematics Men Probability Statistics Storytelling Suspects Tales Untrue Views
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope… — William James Copy Share Image
If a man is telling you something you want to hear - there is a 99.9% chance he's lying. — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. — John Gay Copy Share Image
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. — John Gay Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too… — John Gay Copy Share Image
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend… — John Gay Copy Share Image
I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
