• “The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
  ― G.K. Chesterton
• It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.”
  ― Paul Erdős 
• “But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”
  ― René Descartes 
• “Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.”
  ― Marcel Achard 
• “Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.”
  ― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form  
• “Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.”
  ― George Pólya 
• “Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.”
  ― Amit Abraham, Personality Development Through Positive Thinking  
• math may not teach me how to add love or substract hate but gives me hopes that every problem has a solution. 
• Tolstoy: "Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
  
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: "Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics."
  
• John von Neumann: "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
  
• Plato: "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
  
• Archimedes: "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."
  
• Rene Descartes: "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
  
• Isaac Newton: "If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
  
• Isaac Newton: "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
  
• Benjamin Franklin: "No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry."
  
• Johannes Kepler: "Where there is matter, there is geometry."
• Blaise Pascal: "It is not certain that everything is uncertain."