C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either."
Arithmetic quotes
Arithmetic
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry)."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic."
Susan George
Political Activist
"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine."
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"No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also."
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"I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations."
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"Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war."
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"The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves."
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