Famous quotes containing the words equal and/or numbers:
“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)