Joseph Joubert quotes

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