Joseph Joubert was a famous Writer from France, who lived between May 7, 1754 and May 4, 1824. He/she became 69 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Joseph, under the main topics: Marriage - Poetry.
36 Famous quotes by Joseph Joubert
"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress"
"Innocence is always unsuspicious"
"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve"
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman"
"To teach is to learn twice"
"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet"
"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader"
"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you"
"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you"
"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision"
"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma"
"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk"
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress"
"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of"
"Space is to place as eternity is to time"
"Space is the stature of God"
"Politeness is the flower of humanity"
"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles"
"Imagination is the eye of the soul"
"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum"
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet"
"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation"
"God is the place where I do not remember the rest"
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them"
"Children need models rather than critics"
"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself"
"Ask the young. They know everything"
"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it"
"Never cut what you can untie"
"Misery is almost always the result of thinking"
"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other"
"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates"
"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve"
"Justice is the truth in action"
"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him"
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it"
