Learning Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the…

— Francis William Aston

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

— Sigmund Freud

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

— Samuel Johnson

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…

— Anonymous

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to…

— Horace Walpole

The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between…

— Karl Jaspers

“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind that the…

— James Ryerson

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

— Brian May

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe.…

— Edward Kasner

There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of…

— Niels Henrik Abel