Showing 10 of 15286 quotes
Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading. ”
What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think. ”
You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math. ”
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. ”
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. ”
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ”
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ”
I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. ”
Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves. ”
I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes. ”