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

- Shakuntala Devi

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

- Shakuntala Devi

I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illus…

- Shakuntala Devi

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

- Shakuntala Devi

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

- Shakuntala Devi

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

- Shakuntala Devi

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

- Shakuntala Devi

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it be…

- Shakuntala Devi

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

- Shakuntala Devi