John von Neumann Quotes
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von Neumann
Quotes to Explore
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells
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I don't read books.
Hansika Motwani
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
Felix Baumgartner
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman
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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
Francis Bacon
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
Carine Roitfeld
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Moliere
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von Neumann
