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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
E. T. Bell
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Nguyen Cao Ky
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
Agnes Smedley
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
James M. Baldwin
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Arthur Miller
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Anna Garlin Spencer
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
Ricky Ponting
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Juan Goytisolo
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
Roger Bannister
On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
Henry Benedict Stuart
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer
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