Arithmetic Quote by Plato

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

— Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

— Erskine Bowles

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

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

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without…

— Andy Rooney

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have…

— Plato

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he…

— Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky…

— Carl Sandburg