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 mind's direction is more important than its progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  History, Mind, Progress

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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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• 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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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph 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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• 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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• Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eyeglasses, Vision, Blur

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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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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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Indulge In, Charity, Charitable

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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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• 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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• 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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• Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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  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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• 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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• Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciate, Able, Critics

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• Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

  Joseph Joubert

  Pain, Eye, Talking

  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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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Eye, Excellence

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• We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

  Joseph Joubert

  Heart, May, Rooms

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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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• 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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