Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established ... Read more

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.Quote, saying and phrase by: Bertrand ... Read more

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. ... Read more