Desire Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desire Knowledge Heard Knowledge Knowledge Ceases Learning Philosopher Philosopher Pleasure Philosophy Pleasure Pleasure Heard
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who… — Plato Copy Share Image
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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge. — Charles Tart Copy Share Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“It is better to suffer for knowledge than to pleasure in ignorance.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
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 social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image