In his life Blaise Pascal was famous not only for his work but also for quotations and sayings, some of which are quite popular and listed here.
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Quotes By Blaise Pascal

Nationality
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French
DOB
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19-06-1623
DOD
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19-08-1662
Étienne Pascal was a dutiful father who gave up his job as a civil servant to look after his 3 kids after the death of their mother. Etienne did not send his kids to a school and taught them himself, since some sources say that he did not like the education system. All his kids showed exceptional grasping powers and a phenomenal level of pick up. His son was the brightest among the 3 children and Etienne ensured that the boy focused on Latin and Greek and was away from Geometry. The father apparently feared that his boy would lose interest in literature. But destiny can never be changed and what has to be will be. Ironically, several years later, this little boy, Blaise Pascal, came to be known as the greatest mathematician of all time. He changed the dynamics of mathematics for the very first time when he coined the ‘Pascal’s Theorem’ at the age of 16. Blaise also has made a significant contribution to the field of physics. He is well known for his exceptional works in the fields of ‘Hydrodynamics’ and ‘Hydrostatics’, which formed the basis for the principles of hydraulic fluids. This Christian philosopher also devised a gadget, which was named after him and was famously known as the ‘Pascal’s calculator’. Though this great human, had a short life span of only about 39 years, he has impacted society and the basic education structure till humanity exists.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

- Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

- Blaise Pascal

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

- Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

- Blaise Pascal

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

- Blaise Pascal

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.

- Pensées , Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

- Blaise Pascal

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

- Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

- Blaise Pascal

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

- Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

- Blaise Pascal

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

- Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.

- Blaise Pascal

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

- Blaise Pascal

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

- Blaise Pascal

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