Numbers Quotes

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato

Good, Knowledge, Decision

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Unless, Sound, Large

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright

Book, Writing, Done

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Success, Small, Soul

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Nothing, Another, Service

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Unless, Sound, Large

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Charlie Sheen

Marriage, Tried, Golden

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

Great, Trying, Country

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand

Law, Matter, Rights

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo

Country, Greatness, Determined

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell

Real, Free, Themselves

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene Descartes

Men, Perfect, Rare

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen Reddy

Woman, Ignore, Big

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Die, Living, Earth

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter

Anyone, Market, Thinks

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Men, Find

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
George W. Bush

Budget, Clearly

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton

Weight, Regarded

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

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts

Government, Cannot, Used

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
Liam Neeson

Education, Successful, Game

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
David Bowie

Money, Finance, Writing

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Words, Fact, Read

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
Paul Ryan

Attitude, Country, Debt

A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell

Men, Honest, Few

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Others, Vietnam, Aggression

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
David Herbert Lawrence

Home, War, Business

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle Obama

Hard, Problems, President

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
Jerry Saltz

Change, Art, Big

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams

Universe, System, Ways

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