Capable Quote by Plato Download Open image “I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.” — Plato ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Intelligence Known Mathematician Reasoning
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image