Blaise Pascal Quotes

No one but a fool is always right.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

God has not created anything better than Reason, or anything more perfect, or more beautiful than Reason…. God’s wrath is caused by disregard of it.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Common sense is not so common.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

'Tis folly to be wise.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.