Home / Quotes / Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.”

Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher, writer, and composer, considered one of the most important figures of the Enlightenment. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent literature, political, and social theories. more

You May Also Like

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”

Want Children Mother Steps Every Step Good Mother

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The dead should not rule the living”

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.”

Feels Enough Night Fall Reading Felt Tired Sunday Catchers Sunday Night

Book:Beautiful Creatures

Source: Beautiful Creatures

“She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.”

Made Remember Girl Black Forget Dresses Shirts Over It Boots T Shirt Purple Skinny Black Boots

Author:Kami Garcia

“You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.”

“Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”

Men Unique Tasks Every Man Repetition Unprecedented Recurring Actualization

Book:Hasidism and modern man

Source: Hasidism and modern man

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”

Trying May Born Chance Teach Design Species Selfish Generosity Upset Genes Altruism God Delusion Selfish Gene

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.”

Heart Said Today Tomorrow Solitude Multitudes

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.”

Trying Shining Brave Princess Be Brave Knights Peas Armour Despereaux Knight In Shining Armour

Book:The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

“I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.”

World Kind Stories Use Interest My Family Instinct Observation Comic Devices Life Story Pertinent

Author:Bill Bryson