Blaise Pascal Quotes
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Quotes to Explore
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
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Mistah Kurtz - he dead
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I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.
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There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.
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I really like going to see movies. I know that's super boring but it's true!
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The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
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I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
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Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.
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If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
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A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
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I will either be famous or infamous.
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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
