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Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL Each of us know all there is to know about everything we want to know.
TYLER J. HEBERT We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
WILLIAM JAMES The American consumer is not chopped liver, ... We ought to know about these things.
MAX CLELAND We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know...
ANTONY STARR Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
BLAISE PASCAL This is not a subject that we ought to be talking about daily in regards to a confirmation hearing. ...
PAT ROBERTS I don't know about anything since then that is new.
ASAF SHARIV We know way too little about all those variables.
ALAN LESHNER We know what we know, we will never know what is to be known.
EPHDAN We know we can beat them. We know we should be better than them. But I guess there is a little bit o...
DUSTIN RISSEEUW Since we're in a small town, it's easy for people to assume they know all about the children, so I t...
JAMIE SIMMONS Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...
BLAISE PASCAL There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to ...
CHRIS WEITZ Our ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the exi...
WARREN BUFFETT and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk...
RAYMOND CARVER I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Let your heroes be known. Give praise and honor to those to whom it is rightly due. Spend more time ...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, t...
DONALD RUMSFELD Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th...
DONALD RUMSFELD There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to ...
DONALD RUMSFELD If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
JOHN TEMPLETON That's looks a little more like the way the Trojans ought to play. We played more like we're capable...
HUGH FOUNTAIN When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL We cannot continue talking about a way forward when we know the way forward is to change the constit...
LOVEMORE MADHUKU Basically, everything anyone needs to know about minor baseball will be there.
DAVE CASSELS After that, I'll know everything. To be completely honest with you, I know about Tennessee because t...
LINDSEY HARDING Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be know...
GALILEO GALILEI We can LOVE someone and just be happy about it even if we know that it cannot last forever. It is no...
LAUREL CLIVE We don't know anything about his politics.
DANIEL STERN Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other an...
BELL HOOKS Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then su...
JEANNE MOREAU We know all Canadians want to know what happened. We cannot do anything that might infringe upon any...
WAYNE OAKES What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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DEYTH BANGER Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. B...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Our goal, since our freshman year, has been Sweet 16. We're not talking about it, we're just going t...
ASHLEY BENTLEY The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people...
LEMONY SNICKET We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to ha...
PAMELA SARGENT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the ke...
G.K. CHESTERTON Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due...
GARY HOPKINS Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due...
GARY HOPKINS Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.
SONIA RYKIEL But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about i...
SHANNON L. ALDER We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS A. EDISON We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance,...
HILAIRE BELLOC We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when on...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read abo...
EDDIE MURPHY You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
JULIA CHILD I don't know anything about it, to be honest with you. If it's there, it's there.
DAN MICELI Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th...
DONALD H. RUMSFELD Love isn't about how long you have known someone, but about someone who makes you smile since you kn...
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
SIMON CALLOW Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am...
RICHARD DAWKINS There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
AGNES REPPLIER If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
BEN NELSON We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to ...
JOSEPH NYE We know that after last year, the other teams know all about Manchester and they are coming for us. ...
BARRY BARNES We ought to be bragging about Florida!
RICK SCOTT How do you know you've found your best friend. When you are ready to talk to them about anything, ev...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER F. DRUCKER I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in thi...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there i...
TOM HANKS We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
CRAIG VENTER We know we have nothing to lose and everything to prove. We're past worrying about (Class) A and dou...
LANCE DAVIDS Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea...
OMAR N. BRADLEY Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea...
OMAR BRADLEY Today the Arabs know a little more about the Brazilian potential. We are starting to become better k...
ANTONIO SARKIS JR I don't know anything about music.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't know anything about computers.
ADAM CAROLLA While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is,...
CHARLES OSGOOD Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know
CONRAD AIKEN Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
CONRAD AIKEN Everything we know about Pluto could basically fit on a postcard. We are truly going to a new fronti...
COLLEEN HARTMAN I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.
LEO STRAUSS What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.
MARK SLOTSVE We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
OMAR N. BRADLEY He always made me a little nervous, to know that there was this fly on the wall that we knew nothing...
MARLIN FITZWATER I don't know anything about divisiveness. From our standpoint, everything was smooth.
JOHN CAMPBELL The very fact that we don't know how vulnerable we are to floods across this country ought to be wor...
GERALD GALLOWAY The volunteers don't need to know anything about golf. We have training for them.
CHERYLE SIMON Everybody was so nice to us, and we didn't know anything about the event.
JANIE RUDE While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is,...
CHARLES OSGOOD Now we know what to expect since we've played them once. We know what we have to do, and we know the...
BROOKE JOHNSON We want to know about that day, we really want to know about that day.
DAVID KENDALL Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cann...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it w...
CARRIE RYAN We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.
HJALMAR SöDERBERG A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
ALAN LADD All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. ...
LISA GARDNER

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BLAISE PASCAL If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
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BLAISE PASCAL Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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BLAISE PASCAL Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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BLAISE PASCAL If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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BLAISE PASCAL The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
BLAISE PASCAL It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
BLAISE PASCAL How I hate these follies of not believing in the Eucharist, &c.! If the Gospel be true, if Jesus...
BLAISE PASCAL Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything i...
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BLAISE PASCAL The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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BLAISE PASCAL I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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BLAISE PASCAL We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
BLAISE PASCAL To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
BLAISE PASCAL To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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BLAISE PASCAL The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no differen...
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BLAISE PASCAL We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
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BLAISE PASCAL Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
BLAISE PASCAL Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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BLAISE PASCAL Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
BLAISE PASCAL Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am...
BLAISE PASCAL If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
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BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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BLAISE PASCAL It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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BLAISE PASCAL Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
BLAISE PASCAL Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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BLAISE PASCAL It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
BLAISE PASCAL If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
BLAISE PASCAL Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand.
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BLAISE PASCAL Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
BLAISE PASCAL Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
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BLAISE PASCAL Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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BLAISE PASCAL Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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BLAISE PASCAL Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
BLAISE PASCAL He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres son...
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BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je...
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BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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BLAISE PASCAL We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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BLAISE PASCAL Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
BLAISE PASCAL Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL