Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

Topics

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Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Joe Posnanski

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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Jimmy Wales

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I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

Megan Mullally

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I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

Melania Trump

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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

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When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

Martin Parr

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People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

Mitt Romney

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To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we're depleting ourselves.

Luke Rockhold

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I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it was a big blessing for me because I was not a school person, although I really do miss having that kind of environment.

Dove Cameron

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My confidence was more of a fake-it-until-you-make-it kind of thing. I tried to build my own confidence and not rely on the opinions of others.

Winnie Harlow

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The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.

Richard Fadden

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

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