Tag: Blaise Pascal

Philosopher Quotes

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you. – George Matthew Adams

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. – Confucius

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. – Friedrich Engels

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. – Blaise Pascal

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu

Top 10 Famous Quotes

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

1. “I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein

2. “100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” – Wayne Gretzky

3. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – M.K. Gandhi

4. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Dr. Napoleon Hill

5. “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

6. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

7. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

8. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

9. “Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

10. “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.” – Blaise Pascal

Bonus:

11. “Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice

12. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Inspirational Quotes About Faith

Posted on December 29, 2010 by

“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“Faith is reason grown courageous.” – Sherwood Eddy

“Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Strength to carry on despite the odds means you have faith in your own abilities and know how.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.” – Blaise Pascal

“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.” – Dorothy Thompson

“Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.” – E.B. White

“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety.” – Josh Billings

“Faith is a passionate intuition.” – William Wordsworth

Wise Quotes

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. – Anais Nin

You always admire what you really don’t understand. – Blaise Pascal

One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. – Chinese proverb

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools. – Marshall McLuhan

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. – Elbert Hubbard

We can stay young by focusing on a dream instead of on a regret. – Unknown

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. – Wayne Dyer

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones. – John Maynard Kynes