Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist and Christian philosopher, 1623-1662
18 quotes.
Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
- I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
- If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
- In composing a book, the last thing that one learns is to know what to put first.
- In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous.
- Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
- Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
- 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.
- People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
- The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
- The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning.
- The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
- The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.
- There are plenty of good maxims in the world; we fail only in applying them.
- We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover, than by those which have been suggested to us by others.
- Would you have men think well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.