Blaise Pascal Quotes

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Blaise Pascal

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• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Road

• Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • She
  • Knowledge

• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Life
  • Mistake

• Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Today

• What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Society
  • Simple

• Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

  

  Bobby Rahal

• I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

  

  Masahiro Tanaka
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Athlete

• Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Political
  • Decision

• My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Good
  • Mother

• What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Work

• There are fun parts of running a startup and not so fun parts, and Facebook handles the not so fun parts, like infrastructure, spam, sales. The real questions are, how big can 'Instagram' get? Is it 400 million, or bigger? Can it be a viable business if it is that big? These are at the top of the list for everyone in Silicon Valley.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Real
  • Business
  • Fun

• In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Value

• I always think that some of those moms who are rocking cool fashion looks while walking their little babies in a stroller is just the bomb. You don't have to, all of a sudden, have to transition into 'mom' outfits from the '90s just because you became a mom.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Mom
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Loneliness
  • Arms
  • Without

• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Sun
  • Place
  • Blue

• Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Together
  • Society
  • Political

• One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Never
  • Intuition

• Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Honesty
  • Eloquence
  • Earnest

• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Painting
  • Eloquence

• I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

  

  William Allingham
  • World
  • Men
  • Energy

• Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Kid
  • Written
  • My Wife

• For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Soul
  • Painting
  • Harmony

• True eloquence scorns eloquence.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Eloquence
  • Scorns