Blaise Pascal

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Topic: Emotion, Thinking
Location: Antelope Canyon
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. — Blaise Pascal

All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. — Blaise Pascal

Alone Self

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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Friendship

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

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Conflict Society

Fear

Things are always at their best in their beginning. — Blaise Pascal

Action Obstacles Perseverance Persistence Work

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal

Action Public Speaking Reputation Speech

Imagination decides everything. — Blaise Pascal

Decision Imagination

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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Belief

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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. — Publilius Syrus

Communication Perception Speech

The majority never think beyond what they are told. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership Society Thinking Truth

There is nothing in the universe that you cannot do or be if you are mentally ready. — Emmet Fox

Determination Purpose

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves. — Bruce Lee

Self

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. — Blaise Pascal

Emotion Perception

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. — Henry David Thoreau

Destiny Thinking

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Lao-tzu

Confidence Kindness Love Thinking

Thinking is not repeating what you are told. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Awareness Education Leadership Thinking

What worries you, masters you. — John Locke

Solitude Thinking

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. — Benjamin Franklin

Confidence Purpose Thinking

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. — Orison Swett Marden

Awareness Focus Goals Power Purpose Thinking

Whatever you think about and talk about, eventually comes about. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Affirmation Communication Thinking

Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov

Learning Mistakes Thinking

Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Awareness Perception Self Thinking

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Character Education Intelligence Thinking

Your free will lies in the directing of your attention. — Emmet Fox

Goals Imagination Purpose Thinking

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. — Epictetus

Happiness Power Thinking

Whatever you give your attention to, is the thing that governs your life. — Emmet Fox

Focus Goals Purpose Thinking

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. — Michel de Montaigne

Conflict Responsibility Thinking

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. — Sherlock Holmes

Purpose Thinking Truth

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

› Frida Kahlo

Life Thinking

No man is happy who does not think himself so. — Publilius Syrus

Happiness Self-esteem Thinking

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing him or herself. — Leo Tolstoy

Change Self Thinking

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. — Michel de Montaigne

Speech Thinking

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

› Samuel Johnson

Awareness Change Knowledge Self Thinking

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. — Virgil

Action Practice Thinking Work

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. — Albert Einstein

Education Thinking

It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thinking

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

› John Stuart Mill

Desire Thinking