Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes on Knowledge
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose work profoundly influenced political theory, education, literature, and the French Revolution. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
“Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education.”
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Attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
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Attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
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“Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes.”
Le devin du village (1752) -
“Le devin du village (1752)”
Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes. -
“As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel”
All that time is lost which might be better employed. -
“L'accent est l'âme du discours.”
Accent is the soul of language ; it gives to it both feeling and truth. | English translation as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 2. -
“An honest man nearly always thinks justly.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards , p. 277.