Best Quotes by Joseph Joubert (Top 10)
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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.
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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
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Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
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