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"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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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
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"To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser."
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"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."
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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."
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"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
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"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
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"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
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"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."
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"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
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"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
Time
"God does arithmetic."
God
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
Darkness
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
Life
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
Mathematicians
"Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated."
Science
"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."
Conviction
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
Work
"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."
Humility
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