Knows Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

15 Knows quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean‑Jacques Rousseau contributes fifteen succinct statements on knowing, each echoing his Enlightenment concerns about nature, society, and personal authenticity. The collection offers a compact taste of his philosophical depth.

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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning…

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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more…

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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

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Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are,…

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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in…

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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of…

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But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its…

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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is…

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[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.…

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

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