Total Number

Famous quotes containing the words total number, total and/or number:

    The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
    Jon Wynne-Tyson (b. 1924)

    Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
    Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)

    Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)