Plato Quotes

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Learning Before Earning

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.