Joseph Joubert

Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Featured quote“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”Joseph Joubert

Quotes by Joseph Joubert

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.” Joseph Joubert

“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.” Joseph Joubert

“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.” Joseph Joubert

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“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” Joseph Joubert

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“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” Joseph Joubert

“To teach is to learn twice.” Joseph Joubert

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” Joseph Joubert

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” Joseph Joubert

“Never cut what you can untie.” Joseph Joubert

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.” Joseph Joubert

“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” Joseph Joubert

“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.” Joseph Joubert

“Children need models rather than critics.” Joseph Joubert

“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.” Joseph Joubert

“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

“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.” Joseph Joubert

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.” Joseph Joubert

“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.” Joseph Joubert

“Ask the young. They know everything.” Joseph Joubert

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.” Joseph Joubert

“Innocence is always unsuspicious.” Joseph Joubert

“Justice is the truth in action.” Joseph Joubert

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.” Joseph Joubert

“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.” Joseph Joubert

“The passions of the young are vices in the old.” Joseph Joubert

“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.” Joseph Joubert

“All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.” Joseph Joubert

“Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.” Joseph Joubert

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.” Joseph Joubert

“God is the place where I do not remember the rest.” Joseph Joubert