Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Success, Hate, Book

  "Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education".

• The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Reading, Book

• I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hate, Book, Philosophical

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.292, eKitap Projesi

• Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Loud Voices, Hands

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

• I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Book, Practice

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

• There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Book, Buffon

• The world is woman's book.
  [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, World, Femme

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Book, Abuse

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.450, Basic Books

• Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Mean, Simple

• It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Food, Book, Giving

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