Blaise Pascal Famous Quotes
"Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear."
"Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is."
"The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion."
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
"All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone."
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
"Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image."
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
"One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
"I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal Quotations
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'"
Jerry Lewis
"It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics."
Denise Caruso
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
Thomas Huxley
Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
W Somerset Maugham
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
Thomas Jefferson
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H L Mencken
"You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate."
Hubert Humphrey
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell