Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education

Explore a curated collection of 10 quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ou — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, that we keep them amuse — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, fo — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to show the — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start f — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulse — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret compariso — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education