Edward Kasner Quotes

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

Edward Kasner

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• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Person
  • Feel

• I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Secret

• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Hope
  • Education

• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • You
  • Door

• I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Think

• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • God
  • May
  • Practice

• I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Married

• Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Love
  • Know
  • Moves

• Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

  

  Haim Ginott

• A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • God
  • Prayer

• By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Good
  • Practice

• Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Glory
  • Posterity
  • Sroud

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Influence
  • Mathematics
  • Prejudices

• Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Mathematics
  • Paradox