Men Quote by Paul Halmos Download Open image “Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.” — Paul Halmos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Undecided
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer Copy Share Image
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some and here… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image