Number Quotes

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. (Sydney Smith)
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it. View quote
James Thurber
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. View quote
Neil Armstrong
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. View quote
Graham Greene
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. View quote
John Updike
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. (George Boole)
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. View quote
W. H. Auden
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. View quote
John Ruskin
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. View quote
Wilfred Owen
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing. View quote
Ralph Richardson
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number One. View quote
Arthur Ashe