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Daily Quotes
1. "I have nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde
2. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
3. "Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other."
- Malcolm Forbes
4. "Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated."
- R. Drabek
5. "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand."
- Chinese Proverb
6. "The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind."
- James Pierpont
7. "There is geometry in the humming of the string."
- Pythagoras
8. "Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way."
- Georga Polya
9. "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- René Descartes
10. "A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure."
- Bernard iddings Bell Chaplain
11. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
12. "Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin
13. "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world."
- Nicolai Lobachevsky
14. "Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematic."
- Edward Kasner
15. "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved."
- Henri Poincare
16. "There is no Royal Road to Geometry."
- Proculus
17. "If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."
- Chinese Proverb
18. "Teaching is the Royal Road to learning."
- Jessamyn West
19. "One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."
- Alexandre Dumas
20. "It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts."
- Paul Halmos
21. "The essence of mathematics is in its freedom."
- Georg Cantor
22. " 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
- Eric Temple Bell
23. "Mathematics, in one view, is the science of infinity."
- Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
24. "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
- Walt Disney
25. "We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do no enter the future -- you create the future. The future is created through hard work."
- Jaime Escalante
26. "Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
- Henry Clay
27. "Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences."
- Roger Bacon
28. "The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful."
- Aristotle
29. "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells
30. "I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught."
- Sir Winston Churchill
31. "There are 10 types of people in the world -- Those who understand binary, and those who do not."
32. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it."
- Charles Swindoll
33. "New facts often trigger new ideas."
- T.L. Osborn
34. "If there is no struggle, there can be no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
35.

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
- Oprah Winfrey


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