#guide

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#beacon #claim #direct #explicit #guide

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#guide #light #minds #must #our

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#guided #more #nothing #than #writing

But to us, probability is the very guide of life. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#life #probability #us #very

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#great #guide #idea #ideal #includes

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#going #guide #have fun #i #joy

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#faces #guide #history #inertia #means

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ago #assistance #case #catastrophe #couple