Blaise Pascal Quotes About Curiosity

Quotes about: Curiosity

• Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Vanity, Curiosity

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Moon

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Curiosity, Shows

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 152, 1669.

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