Blaise Pascal Quotes

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The brain is wider than the sky.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

There is one radical distinction between different minds … that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the difference of things, others to mark their resemblances.

Being different gives the world color.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

The whole point of creativity is that it has no boundaries of language, region, and age.

Different is good, and being different is what makes us stand out in the world.