Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Experience
  • Stop

• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Probably

• I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Trust

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Taken

• I'm the original.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Original

• As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Stand
  • Colleagues

• English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in 'justice' or in affirmation of 'rights' or in defense of 'peace' do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Violence

• 'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Help

• ‘Here we go again,’ he thought. ‘Drink and reminiscence. Another day of wasted time. They’re right when they say we drink too much out here. And we slobber too much over ourselves....We’re all sorry for ourselves because we’re not big executives or artists or happily married men in a civilized temperate climate.’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Men
  • Sorry

• To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Good
  • Nature

• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • May
  • Happy
  • Calm

• I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Hope
  • Goddess

• The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • School
  • Kids
  • College

• I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Hate

• The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Government
  • Leaders
  • Reach

• Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

  

  Lizzo
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• So my husband is a health nut. He's a plastic surgeon, and over the years, he's explained to me exactly how important it is to take care of our bodies. It took me years to grasp this concept, but I finally got it, and it's a lifestyle for me now. When we go to a party, we eat off the veggie tray first before moving on.

  

  Dayna Devon
  • Important
  • Moving
  • Husband

• I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Meetings
  • Epitaph
  • Tombstones

• Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau