Blaise Pascal Quotes

We usually don't look. We overlook.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

The mountains are dangerous. Only an unintelligent person will say they are not dangerous.

You're driving with your eyes closed.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.

How the hell can you expect those guys to catch spies when they can't smell the stink under their own noses?

... a fool

Out of sight, out of mind.

Evil is wrought by want of thought

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Haste is blind and improvident.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

… looking and not seeing things was a great sin.