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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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
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I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!
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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.
