Robertson Davies Quotes

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

My father taught only math.

I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Fools are without number.

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

I really love numbers.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

He can afford to be a fool.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.