Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

• Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Knowledge, Genius

• I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Phrases, Knows

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

• God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2008). “Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.275, Wildside Press LLC

• The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Limits, Knows

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education Volume Ii EasyRead la”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

• A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Silence

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.208

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