Quote by Blaise Pascal
Two things control mens nature, instinct and experience. - Blaise

Two things control mens nature, instinct and experience. – Blaise Pascal

Other quotes by Blaise Pascal

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

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Future
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Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. – Blaise Pascal

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Experience
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I feel that between my experience and my mothers, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. – Cynthia Nixon

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Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. – John Keats

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Experience

You may count on Mexicos support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world. – Vicente Fox

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Experience

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. – Randolph Bourne

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Experience

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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce

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Society is composed of two great classes — those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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