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Wells Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it…
- Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.
- 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…
- All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
- To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.
- The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age;…
- By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science,…
- Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this…
- Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
- Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having…
- I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
- There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they…
- We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified…
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong