Blaise Pascal Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

  Blaise Pascal

  Kindness, Character, Accomplish Nothing

• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

• There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fear, Believe, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

• A jester, a bad character.

  Blaise Pascal

  Character, Jester, Bad Character

  "Pensées". Art, VI. 22, 1669.

• That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

  Blaise Pascal

  Queens, Real, Character

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.95

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