Blaise Pascal Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Hands, Judging

• It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Judging, Causes

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.182

• We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

  Blaise Pascal

  Talking, People, Judging

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

• Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Judging

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

• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

• Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Judging, Sake, Authority

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Judging

• One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

  Blaise Pascal

  Talking, Judging, Ordinary

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

• The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

• I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

  Blaise Pascal

  Work, Distance, Math

• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Believe, Men

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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