50+ Inspiring Math Quotes for Teachers, Students & Kids

Mathematics is often considered one of the most difficult subjects by students but if they practice it regularly they can easily master it. But for those students and kids who don’t have a passion for maths, it can become really hard for them and even harder to practice it daily.

However, there are so many other ways to improve math skills such as learning with the help of real-life examples, playing mathematical games, and many more. But one thing that really helps students get attracted to maths and start loving it is by using Quotes. And that’s why we have curated these wonderful quotes related to math.

Inspiring Math Quotes for Teachers, Students & Kids

In my opinion, teachers play a very important role in a student’s life apart from other factors like mental capacity, learning capacity, etc. Like, if a teacher uses a quote before explaining a complex formula or numerical, it can kids to get motivated and they will more attention to it.

Here, we have shared some of the best quotes about math which are quoted by the famous and brightest minds in the world. They are pretty inspiring, humorous, motivational and some of them are also funny.

Famous Math Quotes

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

— Albert Einstein

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

— Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch systems scientist
N.R. Narayana Murthy

I’ve always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing an idea.

— N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian IT industrialist

Mathematics is the music of reason.

— James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.

— Marston Morse, American mathematician

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

— Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist
Shakuntala Devi

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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

— Shakuntala Devi, Indian writer and mental calculator

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.

— Dean Schlicter

Somehow it’s okay for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet, if I said “I never learned to read,” they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and author

Mathematics is a language.

— Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist
William Paul Thurston

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

— William Paul Thurston, American mathematician

Nature is written in mathematical language.

— Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer

‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

— Eric Temple Bell, Scottish mathematician

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician
David Hilbert

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

— David Hilbert, German mathematician

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

— John Wesley Young, American mathematician

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
Richard Courant

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

— Richard Courant, German-American mathematician

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

— Georg Cantor, German mathematician

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

— Stendhal (pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle), French writer

Motivational Math Quotes

Andrew Wiles

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems — they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles

The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

— Stan Gudder, American mathematician

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

— Andrew Wiles

You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician
Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world.

— Marcus du Sautoy

I’ve always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

— Alvin E. Roth, American academic

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

— Andrew Wiles

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul R. Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician
Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

— Dr. Seuss, American children’s author

It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way — even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day.

— Andrew Wiles
Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

— Bernard Baruch, American financier, philanthropist and statesman

Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

— Andrew Wiles, English mathematician

Funny Math Quotes

Raoul Bott

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

— Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg, American poet

Math is fun. It teaches you life and death information like when you’re cold, you should go to a corner since it’s 90 degrees there.

— Anonymous

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

— Steven Wright, American stand-up comedian
Paul Harvey

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine times out of 10 it will.

— Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster

Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

— David Hilbert

Mathematics is a hard thing to love. It has the unfortunate habit, like a rude dog, of turning its most unfavorable side towards you when you first make contact with it.

— David Whiteland, English author
John von Neumann

In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

— John von Neumann

Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.

— Anonymous

I am still waiting for the day I’ll use mathematics integration in real life.

— Derrick Obedgiu

That awkward moment when you finish a math problem and your answer isn’t even one of the choices.

— Ritu Ghatourey, Indian feminist, writer and publisher
Richard J. Trudeau

Pure mathematics is the world’s best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It’s free. It can be played anywhere — Archimedes did it in a bathtub.

— Richard J. Trudeau, mathematician

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I’m tired of solving them for you.

— Anonymous

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

— John von Neumann, American-hungarian mathematician

Inspirational Math Quotes

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

— Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.

— Marcus du Sautoy, British mathematician

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell, British philosopher

Mathematics may not teach us to add love or subtract hate, but it gives us hope that every problem has a solution.

— Anonymous

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

— Georg Cantor

Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.

— Anonymous

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

— Shakuntala Devi

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis, American academic applied mathematician
Sofia Kovalevskaya

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.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

— Proclus, Greek philosopher

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They’re all creative expressions.

— Sebastian Thrun, German innovator, computer scientist and entrepreneur educator

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigor should be a signal to the historians that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.

— W.S. Anglin, Mathematics author

In conclusion, all these maths related quotes are truly inspirational but to make them more powerful teachers have to present them very fluently at the right time. Here is a quick tip for them, just write your favorite quote in your notes that you want to present in your math class and then remember it so that you can tell the kids whenever you feel.

1 thought on “50+ Inspiring Math Quotes for Teachers, Students & Kids”

  1. These inspiring quotes for teachers remind us of the significant impact we can have on our students. They truly highlights the beauty of mathematics and encourages us to convey the message to kids who struggles in maths subject. Thank you for sharing these uplifting words!

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