Top 294 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Joubert
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Joseph Joubert.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
To teach is to learn twice.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Justice is the truth in action.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Children need models rather than critics.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Ask the young. They know everything.
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.
Space is the stature of God.
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.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Never cut what you can untie.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Work like you don't need the money.
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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