| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43779 |
| QUOTATION: | People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 10 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Pascal Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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