Blaise Pascal Quotes

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

There are many things that I don't understand.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.