"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.”

“I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.”

“The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.”

“Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.”

“In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.”

“Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.”

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”

“We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”