Calculation Quotes & Sayings

Calculation Quotes & Sayings

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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. - Sun Tzu



Common sense is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel



With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. - Charles Dickens



The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. - Sir Winston Churchill



Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel



Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid. - Frederick II



Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire



There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't know what else, what can we say if once the hidden forces of sympathy and love have been roused in us? And though it may be that we cannot argue against the reasoning sentiment and to act from impulse, one would almost conclude that some people have cauterised certain sensitive nerves within them, especially those which, combined, are called conscience. Well, I pity those people; they travel through life without compass, in my opinion. - Vincent Van Gogh



Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. - Henry Ford