Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Numbers. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Numbers Quotes and Sayings from 99 influential authors, including Don Delillo,Herta Muller,Jimmy Wales,Hans Christian Von Baeyer,Randal Marlin, for you to enjoy and share.

Numbers behave, words do not. By Don Delillo Numbers Behave Words

I do a lot of counting. Cigarette butts, trees, fence slats, clouds, or the number of paving stones between one phone pole and the next, the windows along the way to the bus stop in the morning, the pedestrians I see from the bus between one stop and the next, red ties on an afternoon in the city. How many steps from the office to the factory gate. I count to keep the world in order, I said. Paul By Herta Muller Counting Bus Lot Stop Trees

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers. By Jimmy Wales Love Hate Numbers Relationship

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. By Hans Christian Von Baeyer Numbers Land Tool Instill Feeling

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers. By Randal Marlin Numbers Modern Times Sound Policymaking

There is strength in numbers. By Iman Abdulmajid Numbers Strength

I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers. By Tahereh Mafi Count Numbers Clock Lines Heart

If you want to get off this team you have to take a number. By Dave Revering Number Team

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that. By Luis Fortuno Dealing Sensitive Numbers People Fact

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real. By Roy H. Williams Numerals Amounts Images Real Represent

Wherever there is number, there is beauty. By Proclus Number Beauty

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up. By Luke Wilson Met Worst People Numbers Vegas

Numbers never lie; one can make them, of course, as one can make anything speak another story in another tongue, but they do not have the inherent falsehood that words carry. By Neel Mukherjee Make Numbers Lie Tongue Carry

I know, I know, numbers are not what you're interested in, except those of you who are engineers. By Tad Williams Numbers Engineers Interested

Let the numbers speak. By Ibrahim Ibrahim Speak Numbers

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand; ... so forth to the utmost limit of numeration. By Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi Number Units Found Calculating People

I gotta be honest with you ... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them. By Garth Stein Hate Numbers Gotta Honest Chapter

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't. By Ian Stewart Kinds World Numerals People Understand

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man. By Bob Seger Number Dammit Man

MANAGING STRICTLY BY NUMBERS IS LIKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS By Ben Horowitz Numbers Managing Strictly Painting

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them. By Blaise Pascal Numbers Follow Researches Part Confess

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric. By Peter Greenaway Universe Man Things Comforting Terrifying

Numbers are important, but only because they represent people for whom Christ died. By Joe Cothen Christ Numbers Important Died Represent

Two four seven, three six five. By N.r. Walker

Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth. By Lailah Gifty Akita Believed Numbers Truth Doubt Nobility

Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful. By Simon Mawer Numbers Hidden Meanings Wonderful Words

In the United States, numbers impress us. We gauge the success of an event by how many people attend or come forward. We measure churches by how many members they boast. We are wowed by big crowds. By Francis Chan States United Numbers Impress Forward

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont By Jay-Z Lie Men Women Numbers Dont

The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you. By John Arbuthnot Numbers Rules Reader Force Mathematical

My most recent novel is written wholly in numbers. By Dan Holloway Numbers Recent Written Wholly

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth. By Plato Truth Qualities Number Lead Apprehension

Computable Numbers' into practice.21 This was By Peter Watson Numbers Computable

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none. By Boethius Numbers Preferred Acquisition Necessity Great

And the bowling average? The obsession with statistics, the purity and power of the numbers worked to the seventh decimal place, as if some truth were hidden in the golden mean. He could feel his young self grasping for solidity in those numbers, keys to himself - I am this concrete, numerical thing. I am 134.7538658. By David Duchovny Average Bowling Numbers Statistics Place

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. By Alexander Pope Numbers Lisp

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. By Carl Sandburg Arithmetic Answer Numbers Squeeze Head

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics. By Hermann Minkowski Integers Mathematics Fountainhead

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. By Mother Teresa Numbers Worry Person Time Start

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count By Russell Hoban Counts Moren Dont Count

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation ... By Paul Auster Life Numbers Number Dealt Begin

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. By Paul Simon Twentytwo Fortyfour Times Door Numbers

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number. By Tony Mccoy Number Years Records Wrapped Chasing

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers. By Carlos Slim Good Numbers People Letters

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?" ... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223" ... "And pray, why would this number interest us?""It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'. By Abraham Verghese Number Favorite Shiva Pray Uninvited

What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers? By Greg Egan Data Numbers Process Generates Relationships

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within. By Marie-Louise Von Franz Number Consciousness Understood Solely Construction

There is a number missing. I can see it. By Eugene Ormandy Missing Number

I'm not a number, I'm a free man By Patrick Mcgoohan Number Man Free

In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things. By Hisham Matar Numbers Distances Things End Remains

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. By Andy Rooney Numbers Tend Give Impression Order

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. By James C. Maxwell Quantity Mathematician Numbers World Arithmetic

Quantity brings recognition and accolades By Sunday Adelaja Quantity Accolades Brings Recognition

Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers. By Carl Eckart Numbers Unaware Deepseated Faith

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you. By Emily Oster Data Numbers Interpretation Subject Decide

Sooner or later all things are numbers, yes? By Terry Pratchett Sooner Numbers Things

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. By John Maynard Keynes World Numeric System Invented Man

What counts that we're not counting? By Frank Sonnenberg Counting Counts

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business. By Bill Gates Business Numbers Fundamental Precept

The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B. By Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Number

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change By Tariq Ramadan Change Numbers Creating

The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things. By Thomas B. Macaulay Plato Numbers Habituates Truth Universe

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. By Gregory Bateson Product Counting Numbers Quantities Measurement

There a lot of numbers you are going to pass for your life, Zero- is a born number One- is a lonely number Two- is a number of love Three- is a number of incomplete family Four- is a number of Family By Federico Lomibao Number Family Life Lot Pass

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. By Arthur Koestler Pythagorean Universe Thought Mathematical Relations

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd. By Patrick Rothfuss Matter Crowd Point Reached Numbers

Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" The By Douglas Adams Number Wrong Marvin Mattress

Number, the most excellent of all inventions. By Aeschylus Number Inventions Excellent

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. By Mary Wortley Montagu Brutes Knowledge Numbers Chief Distinctions

It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's competency in numerate matters. Numeracy By Garrett Hardin Believed Correctly Matters Numeracy Widely

But something about the static truth of numbers hurt my brain. Numbers felt sharp. Words felt elastic and springy. Language had an unpredictable, quicksilver quality, saying one thing but meaning something else, varying from place to place but maintaining (against all evidence) that it was the same language. Thinking about words was ticklish and amusing. It was also easy, as if they fit into slots and patterns prepared for them in my mind. Numbers on the other hand, bounced right out of my mind. By Susanna Kaysen Brain Numbers Mind Static Truth

What's Julie's number?" Curran glanced at me. "Julie's fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and she's been at it for sixteen hours." Dear God, I'd need a damn calculator. By Ilona Andrews Julie Number God Curran Units

Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally. By Nicholas Of Cusa Things Capable Consequence Includes Comparison

The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition By Vladimir Nabokov Repetition Real Number Rest Mere

uncomputable numbers By Andrew Hodges Uncomputable Numbers

Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself. And what is any number, itself, but just another unit of measurement? What is a 'six' but two 'threes', or three 'twos' ... half a 'twelve', or just six 'ones' - which are what? (attrib: F.L. Vanderson) By Mort W. Lumsden Thing Number Unit Quantify Divided

Numberless are the world's wonders By Sophocles Numberless World

Numbers can be an important aspect of understanding infectious disease. Take measles. At first glance, it might seem nonmathematical. It's caused by a paramyxovirus By David Quammen Numbers Disease Important Aspect Understanding

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example. By Daniel Tammet Aesthetics Reason Shapes Processes Reader

Now me," said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully. By Neil Gaiman Vandemar Number Thinking Vandemar Pardon

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. By Richard Hamming Insight Numbers Purpose Computing

I believe in numbers and signs. By Vikram Chatwal Signs Numbers

That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in. By Colin Powell Number Terribly Interested

I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem. By Yoko Ogawa Numbers Wondered Ordinary Words Exotic

The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units. By Lee Smolin Integrals Counting Units Page Notebook

Whether at his desk or at the dinner table, when he talked about numbers, primes were most likely to make an appearance. At first, it was hard to see their appeal. They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves. Still, as we were swept up in the Professor's enthusiasm, we gradually came to understand his devotion, and the primes began to seem more real, as though we could reach out and touch them. By Yoko Ogawa Table Appearance Desk Dinner Talked

Keep in mind, measurement is not just numbers, but stories. By Pearl Zhu Mind Measurement Numbers Stories

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. By Maurice Druon Word Light Music Number Utterance

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description! By Alfred Binet Mere Bring Subject Experiment Intimate

Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God! By Perry Noble Number God Story Matters

Playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America's obvious and enduring math handicap. For too long, what American By Amanda Ripley America Playing Taboo Years Handicap

It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world. By Manly Hall Mathematics Exact Experience Bill Number

Number, place, and combination ... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. By James Joseph Sylvester Number Place Combination Referred Intersecting

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points. By Wilt Chamberlain Points Numbers Fascinated

Well, my lord," Noorden said. "Imagine that you hear a tapping sound somewhere outside your tent. If it repeats occasionally, with no exact set pattern, then it might be the wind blowing a loose flap against a pole. However, if it repeats with exact regularity, you know that it must be a person, beating against a pole. You'd be able to make the distinction immediately, because you've learned that nature can be repetitive in a case like that, but not exact. These numbers are the same, my lord. They're just too organized, too repetitive, to be natural. They had to have been crafted by somebody. By Brandon Sanderson Noorden Lord Pole Exact Imagine

I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority. By Delmon Young Numbers Stuff Priority Worry Wins

Throughout my life, there has always been a number that sounded old. When I was sixteen, it was twenty-seven; at twenty-nine, it was forty-two; at thirty-eight, it was fifty-two. At sixty-five, however, it was sixty-five. By Mark Jacobson Life Number Sounded Sixtyfive Sixteen

A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits. By Gayle Forman Digits Journey Thousand Miles Starts

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. By Pat Conroy Baseball Numbers Love Fans Bordeaux

Harriet grinned at Betty Armstrong, hearing the familiar academic wrangle begin. Before ten minutes had passed, somebody had introduced the word "values." An hour later they were still at it. Finally the Bursar was heard to quote: "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." "Oh, bother!" cried the Dean. "Do let's keep mathematics out of it. And physics. I cannot cope with them. By Dorothy L. Sayers Armstrong Betty Harriet Hearing Begin

I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt. By Oliver Sacks Invariant Solid World Numbers Stood