We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal · The source reads: “We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.” · From the Pensées, next to the better known line that the heart has its reasons.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Blaise Pascal · Pensées, 556

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

Blaise Pascal · The source reads: “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.” · Fragment 277 of the Pensées, quoted for every love that logic cannot explain.

True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality.

Blaise Pascal · Pensées (Thoughts) (1670), no. 4

More Wisdom Quotes

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

The Bible · Proverbs 25:21–22

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

Great cases like hard cases make bad law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904)

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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”

“True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality.”

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“Great cases like hard cases make bad law.”