Blaise Pascal Quotes

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Blaise Pascal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

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I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.

Jimmy Walker

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.

Jerry Gillies

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Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

Amanda Lindhout

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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

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'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.

Mary Berry

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Don DeLillo

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.

Courtney A. Kemp

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What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system.

Boots Riley

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Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

Brad Pitt

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I would never leave the house before choosing an outfit and doing my hair - the results may vary, but I cannot do otherwise.

Brigitte Macron

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There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1975 and Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, was a bad man. That may even be an understatement. In this fashionable consensus, he is not just a bad man: he is a war criminal.

Alistair Horne

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