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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 most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer."

"They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests. ....But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood."

"The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret."

"It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it."

"Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit."

"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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"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."

"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."

"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."

"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."

"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."

"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
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