Blaise Pascal Quotes

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.

Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.