Top 100 Jean Baptiste Quotes

#1. Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #2925
#2. After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #18244
#3. In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #23350
#4. The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #39649
#5. Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Jean Baptiste Quotes #40399
#6. I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #90521
#7. Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #95361
#8. Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #114558
#9. To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #128155
#10. The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #148886
#11. It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy ... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre

Jean Baptiste Quotes #154615
#12. The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #207040
#13. I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #212444
#14. Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #220776
#15. Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #235281
#16. Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#17. The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #252426
#18. Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #267484
#19. The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #272281
#20. At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #298833
#21. Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #299129
#22. God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean Baptiste Quotes #307351
#23. Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #308202
#24. I thought that was my room," she said, gesturing behind him.
"It is."
"And my shower."
He sniffed with irritation. "I have a bathtub."
"And that's a problem?"
"I don't do bathtubs, Miss Burel." His eyebrow lifted. "Unless I have company.

Alexandra Ivy

Jean Baptiste Quotes #312525
#25. Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #325434
#26. Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean Baptiste Quotes #332211
#27. The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or talents, except insomuch as they would interfere with the rights of third parties.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #337700
#28. I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #389715
#29. In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk ... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

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#30. It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #414400
#31. Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #414699
#32. If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #419277
#33. It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #448790
#34. Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean Baptiste Quotes #464244
#35. A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #469781
#36. As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #482635
#37. Truth is no road to fortune.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #483594
#38. Youth is life's beautiful moment.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #499403
#39. In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #499729
#40. But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #513788
#41. One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #526306
#42. Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #540722
#43. Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #542122
#44. In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Jean Baptiste Quotes #548997
#45. In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values ... and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #551960
#46. Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #559343
#47. I actually like getting up to blue skies.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #569806
#48. Sure she'd found males attractive. But wanting them? Needing to feel their skin? Taste their lips? Run her fingers through their hair as she growled and begged them for all things dirty?
Not until now.
Until Jean-Baptiste.

Alexandra Ivy

Jean Baptiste Quotes #572233
#49. Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #590568
#50. It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean Baptiste Quotes #591892
#51. True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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#52. Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #611201
#53. Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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#54. The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #651998
#55. And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #654970
#56. The great men of antiquity were poor.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #672502
#57. It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Quotes #702147
#58. How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy! ... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Jean Baptiste Quotes #704965
#59. It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean Baptiste Quotes #705818
#60. I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

Albert Camus

Jean Baptiste Quotes #711330
#61. With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #717193
#62. Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #721902
#63. Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness.

Andrew Miller

Jean Baptiste Quotes #745388
#64. No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#65. I love the mountains, the light. I'm a real light junkie.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #757996
#66. If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#67. Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #771999
#68. Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Quotes #775818
#69. I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #783994
#70. The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.

Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #786551
#71. We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess.

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard

Jean Baptiste Quotes #792801
#72. Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

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#73. A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#74. To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#75. Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

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#76. The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #826336
#77. Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

Jean Baptiste Quotes #832539
#78. All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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#79. Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean Baptiste Quotes #848432
#80. I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #850223
#81. Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #856631
#82. When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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#83. Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #899264
#84. The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#85. For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #902573
#86. I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean Baptiste Quotes #903238
#87. The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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#88. Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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#89. Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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#90. Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#91. They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#92. I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #922623
#93. Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean Baptiste Quotes #931133
#94. Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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#95. I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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#96. Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.

Jean-Baptiste Chautard

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#97. The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#98. With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#99. The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#100. It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Quotes #963251

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