Joseph Joubert quotes

The imagination is the eye of the soul. (Joseph Joubert)
Justice is the right of the weakest.
Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph Joubert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Everything that is exact is short.
Joseph Joubert
Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
Joseph Joubert
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. (Joseph Joubert)
Close your eyes and you will see.
Joseph Joubert
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.
Joseph Joubert
Children need models more than they need critics.
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
Ask the young. They know everything.
Joseph Joubert
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. (Joseph Joubert)
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert