Blaise Pascal Quotes

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

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• Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Deep
  • I Love You

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• I'm definitely a foodie.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Definitely

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Age
  • Acting
  • Used

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Wife
  • Married
  • Happily

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Work
  • Men
  • Interesting

• I want to be the jazz singer.

  

  Kurt Elling

• Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Tired
  • Wrong
  • Answer

• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Great
  • Nature

• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  

  William Blake
  • Science
  • Foundation
  • Empire

• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Morality