Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

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

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Never cut what you can untie.

To teach is to learn twice.

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

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

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

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

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

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