"We sometimes learn more from the sight of……" — Blaise Pascal
"We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare."
—
Blaise Pascal
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
More Accustom Quotes
This quote is filed under Accustom Quotes,
one of 40 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
-
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
-
Accustom yourself to tireless activity.
— Alexander Suvorov
-
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you…
— Francois Fenelon
-
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
— Samuel Johnson
-
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort…
— Alexander Pope
-
We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
-
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
— Oscar Wilde
-
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness…
— Seraphim Rose
-
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest…
— Plutarch
See all 40 Accustom Quotes »