If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?
Harvey Jackins, quoted in Exploring Elementary Mathematics: a Small Group Approach for Teaching, by Julian Weisglass.
184
 
The man with courage is a majority.
Andrew Jackson, quoted in Wisdom for the New Millennium edited by Helen Exley.
1070
 
One person with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson,
795
 
America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Jesse Jackson,
1040
 
It is true that Fourier had the opinion that the principal object of mathematics was public use and the explanation of natural phenomena; but a philosopher like him ought to know that the sole object of the science is the honor of the human spirit and that under this view a problem of [the theory of] numbers is worth as much as a problem on the system of the world.
C.G.J. Jacobi, quoted in Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times by Morris Kline
902
 
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James,
1502
 
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James,
1501
 
The whole science of geometry may be said to owe its being to the exorbitant interest which the human mind takes in lines. We cut up space in every direction in order to manufacture them.
William James, from A Dictionary of Quotations in Mathematics by Nowlan
1670
 
All the pictures which science now draws of nature and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact are mathematical pictures... From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
Sir James Hopwood Jeans, quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
185
 
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Thomas Jefferson, quoted in A Teacher's Treasury of Quotations, by Bernard E. Farber.
186
 
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson,
1319
 
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson,
1318
 
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson,
1317
 
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson,
1061
 
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.
W. S. Jevons, quoted in The World of Mathematics, by J.R. Newman.
188
 
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
W. S. Jevons,
187
 
For example is not a proof.
Jewish proverb,
897
 
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc,
1009
 
Life is a near death experience.
Dr. John, from the album The City That Care Forgot.
1392
 
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, quoted in A Primer of Mathematical Writing by Steven G. Krantz.
738
 
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson,
189
 
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan,
835
 
It doesn't take many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph,
1259
 
We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors.
Bruce Joyce, quoted in Discovering Geometry, by M. Serra.
190
 
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce,
986
 
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce,
977
 
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Jung,
1805
 
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung,
1728
 

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