Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

Love, Kindness, Deserve

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

Kindness, Deserve, Loving

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

Expect, Search, Honey

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

Learn, Teach, Twice

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

Victory, Progress, Aim

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

Marriage, Woman, Friend

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

Question, Debate, Settle

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert

Humanity, Flower, Politeness

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert

Children, Rather, Critics

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert

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

Best, Long, Short

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

Future, Respect, Past

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

Themselves, Create, Profound

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

Mind, Important, Progress

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

Learning, Feet, Wings

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

Love, Family, Fear

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert

Thinking, Almost, Result

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

Great, Give, Write

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

Spiritual, Material, Enigma

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

Few, Born, Order

Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert

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

Everyone, Thyself, Indulge

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

Great, Alone, Genius

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: May 7, 1754

Died: May 4, 1824

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