Joseph Joubert Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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  Kindness, People, Glad

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

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  Truth, Anticipation, Sunlight

  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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• 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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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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

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  Appreciate, Able, Critics

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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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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Excellence

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• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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  Love, Happiness, Happy

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

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• When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

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  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

  "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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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

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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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• All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Garden

  "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.

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  Trust, Past, Safety

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

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  Beautiful, Genius, Labor

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

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• Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Action, Impulse

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.63

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• It is always our inabilities that vex us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inability, Vex, Ability

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

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

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  Ideas

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Found, Poetry Is

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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