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
  • Fashion
  • Mom
  • 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

• But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Song
  • Rose
  • Eloquence

• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

  

  Helen Keller
  • People
  • Joy
  • Storm

• You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Society
  • City
  • Violence

• The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • God
  • Angel
  • Sport

• I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Done
  • Parent
  • Blind

• True eloquence scorns eloquence.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Eloquence
  • Scorns