Joseph Joubert Quotes
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~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Children need models rather than critics.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Chance generally favors the prudent.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Ask the young. They know everything.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Children have more need of models than critics.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Never cut what you can untie.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The spectacle has changed, but our eyes remain the same.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Justice is the truth in action.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Space is the stature of God.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Whence? wither? why? how?
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
~ Joseph Joubert Quote
