Mathematics Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Download Open image “Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.” — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematics Pleasure Truth
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.” — Osho Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices...… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley 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
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert 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
“How in the world did I ever find you?” Mackenzie Winters “Math class.” Brandon Knight” — Bella Jeanisse Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the essential language… — William H. Patterson Jr 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
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky 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