I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
- Topic: Intelligence
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Blaise Pascal
What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.