26 Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method—more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records—of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

I divide the world into three Classes – The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Many peoples tombstones should read, ‘Died at 30. Buried at 60.’