Benjamin Peirce Quotes
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.Benjamin Peirce
Quotes to Explore
-
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
R. Kelly -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
Adam Grant -
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
Sade Adu -
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
G-Eazy
-
We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
Barack Obama -
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
Coco Chanel -
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.
Antonin Artaud -
The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
Bill Gates -
If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
Cormac McCarthy -
When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
The Notorious B.I.G.
-
Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.
Arthur Rimbaud -
In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
Dido Armstrong -
In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
Billy Crystal -
In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
Brad Wenstrup -
Theater was just what I was supposed to do.
Annaleigh Ashford -
Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
Berkeley Breathed
-
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt -
There is a number missing. I can see it.
Eugene Ormandy -
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
Albert Einstein -
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.
Benjamin Peirce