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Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Type: Writer Quotes Category: French Writer Quotes Date of Birth: May 7, 1754 Date of Death: May 4, 1824 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Joseph Joubert Related Authors: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Voltaire Simone de Beauvoir Nicolas de Chamfort Stendhal Andre Maurois Madame de Stael |
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. Joseph Joubert Ask the young. They know everything. Joseph Joubert Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. Joseph Joubert Children need models rather than critics. 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 Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. Joseph Joubert He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. 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 Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert Innocence is always unsuspicious. Joseph Joubert It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. Joseph Joubert Justice is the truth in action. Joseph Joubert Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. Joseph Joubert Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. Joseph Joubert Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert Never cut what you can untie. Joseph Joubert Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. Joseph Joubert One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. Joseph Joubert Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joseph Joubert Space is the stature of God. Joseph Joubert Space is to place as eternity is to time. Joseph Joubert Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Joseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Joseph Joubert 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 The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. Joseph Joubert The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joseph Joubert The passions of the young are vices in the old. Joseph Joubert There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. Joseph Joubert Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. Joseph Joubert To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. Joseph Joubert When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. Joseph Joubert Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. Joseph Joubert Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joseph Joubert Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. Joseph Joubert Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert |
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