Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
God does arithmetic.