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Joseph Joubert Quotes
Joseph Joubert Quotes
Joseph Joubert
French
Writer
Born:
May 7
,
1754
Died:
May 4
,
1824
Always
Imagination
More
Than
Who
You
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
You
Honey
Must
Go
Bees
Expect
Search
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Kindness
People
More
Than
Loving
Deserve
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert
Humanity
Flower
Politeness
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Love
Kindness
People
Consists
More
Part
Than
Loving
Deserve
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
Better
Debate
Settle
Settling
Without
Question
Debating
Than
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph Joubert
Love
Truth
Those
More
Never
Retract
Opinions
Than
Themselves
Who
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
Best
Anger
Walk
Long
Temper
Remedy
Short
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
Future
Respect
Safety
Wish
Past
Must
Mistrust
Provide
Present
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
Soul
Imagination
Eye
Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
Critics
Rather
Than
Models
Children
Need
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
You
Will
Unless
Find
Some
Poetry
Nowhere
Bring
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.
Joseph Joubert
Great
Me
Bible
Book
Men
Sense
Live
Books
Remained
Divine
How
Still
Which
Teach
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.
Joseph Joubert
People
Hide
Shadows
Part
Abstract
Most
Terms
Make
How
How Many People
Themselves
Create
Useful
Many
Appear
Profound
Vacuum
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert
Progress
Mind
Important
Direction
More
Than
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert
Truth
Justice
Action
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert
Time
World
Books
Act
Acted
Now
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
Everyone
Charitable
Thyself
Indulge
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert
Feelings
Constant
Opinions
Fixed
Who
Ever
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert
Mind
Pain
Delight
Forth
Brings
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
Great
You
Pleasure
Easily
Give
Great Pleasure
Emotion
Write
Writer
Never
Reader
Does
Anything
Transferred
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert
Old
Young
Passions
Vices
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph Joubert
God
Remember
Rest
Where
Place
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
You
Will
Unless
Find
Some
Poetry
Anywhere
Bring
Space is the stature of God.
Joseph Joubert
God
Space
Stature
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