Blaise Pascal Quotes

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

If you would judge, understand.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

There are all different types of people out there who are going to say all kinds of things, online and in real life. The important thing is to know which ones to listen to.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.