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"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation."
"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible."
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
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