One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was... →
Francine Pascal
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Boris Pasternak
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one... →
Stephan Pastis
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be... →
Saint Patrick