Top 219 Arithmetic Quotes & Sayings

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

God does arithmetic.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

Arithmetic has began to totter.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

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.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching.

The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.