Famous Quotes

"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Knowledge

More quotes about Knowledge

• "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "Information is not knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

  Marcus Garvey on Knowledge

• "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

  William Shakespeare on Knowledge

More quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• "O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

• "Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone."

• "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

• "No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."

• "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."