The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

—Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal

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

—Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

—Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

—Ausonius

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

—Abraham Lincoln

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

—Abraham Lincoln

Silence is a text easy to misread.

—A. A. Attanasio

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

—Dan Quayle