"Since we cannot know all that there..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.”

“What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.”

“The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.”

“The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.”

“I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.”

“The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act."”

“I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.”

“We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.”

“Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.”