Quotes By Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

To teach is to learn twice.

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

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

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

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

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.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Children need models rather than critics.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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.

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

Justice is the truth in action.