#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

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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

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#every #guide #individual #know #language

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#choose #guide #i #leading #me

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen. ↗

— Steve Brown

#could #did #guide #happen #like

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen. ↗

— John Wozniak

#even #gifts #guides #happen #me

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

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

— Joseph Butler

#life #probability #us #very