On this page, I will include quotes that I find valuable and that I like. All the quotes on this page will be in English. Most of the quotations will be from books and printed sources, but I may also include quotations from media such as movies. I will also include the source of each quotation. The quotations go backwards from top to bottom.
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
- Isaac Newton, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (by David Brewster)
Date Added: April 11, 2025
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, Letter to Farkas Bolyai (2 September 1808)
Date Added: April 11, 2025
"There is no royal road to geometry."
- Euclid, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements (by Proclus)
Date Added: April 11, 2025