Clarity Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clarity Damage Intellect Intelligence Math Mathematical Mathematics Perfect Profit
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. — Avital Ronell Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!! — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
