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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• 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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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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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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• 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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• Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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• Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Genius, Standards

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph 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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• Imagination is the eye of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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• 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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• Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Genius, Labor

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.139

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• 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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Loving Nature, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of 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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• What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Selfishness, Introducing

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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Eye, Excellence

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Self Respect, Ears, Want

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

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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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• Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Glasses, Vision

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

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Anger, Hiking, Long Walks

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