Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Kindness, Women

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Business, Ideas, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Ideas, Judging

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Victory, Intelligence

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Weakness

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• Never cut what you can untie.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Cutting, Interesting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Nature, Humorous, Profound

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Trust, Past, Safety

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Atmosphere, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.12

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Kindness, People, Glad

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• Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.65

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• Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligent, Men, Age

  "Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Anticipation, Sunlight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Truth, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Eye, Excellence

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• Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Pain, Wrinkles

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Age, Innocence

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Numbers, Wish

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Imagination is the eye of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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