Quotes By Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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

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

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

Space is the stature of God.

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

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

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

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.

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

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

To teach is to learn twice.

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

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

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.