Blaise Pascal People Quotations

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself. [Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous? N'en dites point.]

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself