Joseph Joubert Quotes

"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Children)

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Humanity, Politeness)

"Space is the stature of God."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: God, Space)

"Space is to place as eternity is to time."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Time, Eternity, Space)

"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Religion, Superstition)

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Poetry, Will)

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Temper)

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Progress, Direction, Mind)

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Delight, Mind, Pain)

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Poetry, Will)

"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Time, Act, Books, Now, World)

"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
(Related: Future, Mistrust, Past, Present, Respect, Safety)

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Bees)

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Feelings, Opinions)

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Spiritual, World)

"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Vision, Words)

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Marriage, Friend, Man, Woman)

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Progress, Victory, Argument)

"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Old, Vices)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Feelings, Grace, Manners, Moderation, Spirituality)

"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
(Related: Men, Bible, Books, Sense)

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: People, Kindness)

"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Order)

"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
(Related: Children)

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Imagination, Feet, Learning)

"God is the place where I do not remember the rest."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: God, Rest)

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Imagination, Feet, Learning)

"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
(Related: People, Shadows)

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Family, Love, Father, Fear)

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Emotion, Pleasure, Writer)

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Genius, Labor)

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Misery, Result, Thinking)

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Imagination, Soul, Eye)

"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Logic, Metaphysics)

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: People, Kindness)

"Justice is the truth in action."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Truth, Action, Justice)

"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: God)

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Debate, Question)

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Innocence)

"Never cut what you can untie."
- Joseph Joubert