Blaise Pascal Quotes

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Better to be happy than wise.

L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.