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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.


Jean Jacques Rousseau

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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown.
UNKNOWN I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no
WILLIAM COWPER People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
PROVERB The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU There are those who know much but understand little.
STEVEN REDHEAD To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING It's a little weird to think there are people who will know me much more intimately than I will know...
JULIA BASKIN I don't know who Little Richard is.
BAR REFAELI Do not believe people who say they know everything – they often know too little, and the least of ...
ERALDO BANOVAC Little persons try to be perfect while great ones do not know they are great.
VIKRANT PARSAI Men should strive to think much and know little.
DEMOCRITUS Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn...
VOLTAIRE Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn...
VOLTAIRE Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; no...
W.E.B. DU BOIS I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah mov...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do...
WILKIE COLLINS He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
LAO TZU Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible peo...
JOHN KEEGAN We not only need to know who we are, we need to tell people who we are. We didn't have much to say i...
AL FROM We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.
CHARLIE FLETCHER Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...
CHARLES DARWIN Usually, people who ask 'do you know who I am?' don't have a clue themselves.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and no...
CHARLES DARWIN Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of tho...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen u...
ALI SMITH there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; t...
KAREN MARIE MONING I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I would say I know people who are white who are more Hispanic at heart than Mr. Segura.
MARCO DIAZ He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice mu...
JAMES ALLEN Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
WILFERD A. PETERSON Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
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ANDY MOOG I know who the great poets are.
JACK KEROUAC People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
ISAAC ASIMOV People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues...
FIONNULA FLANAGAN Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG You all know who she is. There's very little she isn't.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS People who are for things don't usually go out and say something, it's usually people that are again...
EVE TIDWELL Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
ISAAC ASIMOV All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Men are attached to two types of women : those who wear well and those who wear little.
VIKRANT PARSAI Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince.
VERONICA HENRY I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight ...
DENIS LEARY I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
VICTORIA ABRIL There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everythin...
OSCAR WILDE There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything...
OSCAR WILDE There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything...
OSCAR WILDE Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?
ONYI ANYADO He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much;...
JAMES ALLEN He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much;...
JAMES ALLEN I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
PATRICE O'NEAL L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of k...
MATT WALSH Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don...
GREG SISCO I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
VOLTAIRE You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI This is not meant to make fun of ourselves or the people who want to come here. But people do need t...
MAUD BREDERO I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people ...
HOWARD GARDNER Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Who begins too much accomplishes little.
GERMAN PROVERB Who begins too much accomplished little.
GERMAN PROVERB We know a little more about murder than a lot of people because we have had people in our families w...
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
LAO-TZU such an exotic underworld that we know a little about, but not much. I've wanted to explore it for a...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings ar...
PAUL BERMAN We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
THOMAS A KEMPIS We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
THOMAS KEMPIS We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
THOMAS Ã KEMPIS ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feeling...
LEV S. VYGOTSKY I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a s...
KRISTEN STEWART You have to study a great deal to know a little.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, m...
LOUIS C. K. You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how th...
C. C. COLTON How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS How great in number are the little minded men
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least ab...
J.S. GOLDSTINE I wasn't to make an album that's going to make people say 'WOW! I thought she was just some stupid l...
MANDY MOORE I am so great people who did'nt want tuh know meh, had to know meh.
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN He who awaits much can expect little.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ He who boasts much can do little
AFRICAN PROVERB A people who souls are so little tuned to joy
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT We don't know who the people are who are going to vote and we don't know where they are.
ED RENWICK I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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