Blaise Pascal Quotes
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I'm never satisfied.
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You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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He who considers too much will perform little.
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
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It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.
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If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.
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When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.
