As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to be known about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is much bet… - Blaise Pascal

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

It is better to know something about everything then everything about something

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

No habiendo podido los hombres
remediar la muerte
la miseria y la ignorancia,
han imaginado, para ser felices,
no pensar en absoluto en ellas.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

It is not in space that I must look for my dignity, but in the organization of my thoughts. I shall have no advantage in owning estates. Through space the universe grasps and engulfs me like a pinpoint; but through thought I can grasp it . . . . All our dignity consists, therefore, of thought. It is from there that we must be lifted up and not from space and time, which we could never fill. So let us work on thinking well. That is the principle of morality.