Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

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  Love, Kindness, Women

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

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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

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

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  Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

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• To teach is to learn twice.

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  Inspirational, Life, Education

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

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

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  Inspirational, Victory, Intelligence

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

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• Children need models rather than critics.

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  Positive, Education, Children

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• Never cut what you can untie.

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  Life, Cutting, Interesting

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

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• Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

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  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Men

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

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  Inspirational, Truth, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

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  Consistency, Feelings, Opinion

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

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  Trust, Past, Safety

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• Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

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  Liquid, Language, Mark

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• 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.

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  Character, Humility, Echoes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

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  Writing, Glasses, Vision

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

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• Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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  Writing, Glasses, Fine Words

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• Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

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  Pain, Half, Feels

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

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  Nature, Humorous, Profound

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

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• How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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  People, Profound, Way

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• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Rip

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

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  God, Believe, Thinking

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• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Ask the young. They know everything.

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  Time, Children, Humorous

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

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• Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

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  Inspirational, Life Is, Duty

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

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  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

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• It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

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  Ideas, Polish

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

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