1. A wise man will hear and increase learning.
2. Incline your ears to wisdom.
3. Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding.
4. Wisdom is a principal thing, therefore get wisdom and in all your getting, get understanding.
5. Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
6. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a bandit.
7. There is no limit to the progress of mathematics.
8. "mathematics is the queen of science." Carl Friedrich Gauss
9. "In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation adds a new story to the old structure." Hermann Hankel
10. If all the arts aspire to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
11. Anxiety in the heart causes depression. But a good work makes it glad.
12. "Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time of Newton, what he has done is much the better half." Leibniz
13. "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world." Lobachevsky
14. "Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world." Roger Bacon
15. "The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination." Augustus de Morgan
16. Good understanding wins favour...
17. Newton and Newton's laws lay hid in night; God said:"Let Newton be, and all is light." Alexander Pope.
18. The reason why I could lift above others is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. Newton
19. "I have always imagined myself as a little child, picking up seashells hither and thither, and examining them, when the vast ocean of truth lies undiscovered before me." Newton