Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Thank You!' is the most powerful vibration you can send out into the Universe.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

The business of business is business.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.