We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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More Quotes from Blaise Pascal
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.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
