Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Common sense is not so common.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Ignorance never settles a question.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

I seek the truth.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?