Asking Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asking Asks Dare Identity Self identity
Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all?… — R. J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall 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
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Stop asking yourself how or why and tell yourself you can." - Charmainism” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
