Counting Quotes

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

The ballots don’t make the results—the counters make the results.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

Genocide, massacre, and human slaughter; pillage, rape, and torture have been much more common than war and revolution. But historians do not dwell on such events. And even if they do, they very rarely attach numbers to them. They prefer the glamour of war, of diplomacy, of the clash of nations and personalities.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Let no day go by without counting your blessing.

I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

Not everything that counts can be counted.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?