"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
MenView Quote
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.“
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
posted in Truth
Other Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discover more inspiring quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
PatienceView Quote
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
WarView Quote
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
WisdomView Quote
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
HappinessView Quote
"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
StrengthView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
TruthView Quote
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
TruthView Quote
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
TruthView Quote
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
TruthView Quote
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
TruthView Quote
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
TruthView Quote