Quotes By Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.

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

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

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.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Justice is the truth in action.

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.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Never cut what you can untie.

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.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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

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

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

Space is the stature of God.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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.

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.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.