Blaise Pascal Quotes

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

No one who lives in error is free.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.