Backwards Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backwards Life Periods
There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Life is for living forwards, when we look back, it should only be to realize how far we've come. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
We live life looking forward and only understand it fully looking backward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman 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 enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...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 the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“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 - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how well we know folks, or how much we consider them peers, or how much social capital we've invested in them. That has to do with race, class, gender, and socioeconomic status. We have a tendency to… — Chris Hayes Copy Share
You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it. — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
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