Thousand Quotes - Page 6

• Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.

  Keith Devlin

  Teacher, Couple, School

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• I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  How are you?
  
  I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  What is God?
  
  If you think that the Truth can be known
  From words,
  
  If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
  Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
  
  O someone should start laughing!
  Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

  Hafez

  God, Truth, Lying

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• The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Blessing, Sun, Shows

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• Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.

  E.D. Baker

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Spirit, Inspired, Rage

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• My mind lets go a thousand things,
  Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Letting Go, Kings, War

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• The talents lost--the moments run
  To waste--the sins of act, of thought,
  Ten thousand deeds of folly done,
  And countless virtues cherish'd not.

  John Bowring

  Running, Done, Deeds

  Sir John Bowring (1824). “Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces”, p.48

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• What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

  Emile Chartier

  Time, Thinking, Years

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• I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Friendship, Giving, And Love

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• I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cities, Killing, Members

  "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• Today I sat before the cliff Until the mist and rainbows disappeared I followed the emerald stream Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds At night a bright moon floats in the sky I am free of the busy world There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind

  Hanshan

  Morning, Heart, Moon

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• I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane

  Hanshan

  Book, Thinking, Moon

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• The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

  Hanshan

  Moon, Clouds, Bridges

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• There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Wise, Pain, Book

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?”

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• It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

  Saadi

  Sight, Break Off, Enemy

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.111, Innovations and Information

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• Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Years, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hero, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Years, Clothes, Twenties

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• So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.

  Wayne Teasdale

  War, Past, Thinking

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• Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

  Willis Regier

  War, Book, Men

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

  Daniel Pipes

  Powerful, Years, Cities

  Daniel Pipes (2015). “Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Prayer, Army, Men

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• I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.

  Roz Chast

  Fighting, Shopping, People

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