Mankind Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mankind Nature of man
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from… — Thomas Binney Copy Share Image
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs. — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. — Andrew Jackson Davis Copy Share Image
The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
