Carl Sandburg Quotes

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.

I was just kind of doing the math.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

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

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

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

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

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

I love math.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

The Fidasians are so expert in keeping their accounts, that they easily reckon as exact, and as quick by memory, as we can do with pen and ink

Thomas Fuller, known as the Virginia Calculator, was stolen from his native Africa at the age of fourteen and sold to a planter. When he was about seventy years old, 'two gentlemen, natives of Pennsylvania, viz., William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, men of probity and respectable characters, having heard, in traveling through the neighborhood in which the slave lived, of his extraordinary powers in arithmetic, sent for him and had their curiosity sufficiently gratified by the answers which he gave to the following questions: First, Upon being asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47,304,000. Second: On being asked how many seconds a man has lived who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and a half 2,210,500,800. One of the gentlemen who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations told him he was wrong, and the sum was not so great as he had said—upon which the old man hastily replied: stop, master, you forget the leap year. On adding the amount of the seconds of the leap years the amount of the whole in both their sums agreed exactly.

I really love numbers.

When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.

When you're out shopping, try to calculate the discount of something in the sales, or work out how much a bill in a restaurant will come to. Your brain is just like any other muscle - you have to train it to make it work faster.