Ibn Khaldun Quotes

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

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.

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

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

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.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

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.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

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

There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.