Blaise Pascal

"Pascal was a pioneer in the psychology of persuasion. ...Lead people to the answer, but let them discover it on their own. 'People are generally better persuaded by reasons they have themselves discovered than by those from the minds of others.'" - Breakpoint

"I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town.... Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible." - Cranach