Joseph Joubert Quotes

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Joseph Joubert

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Joseph Joubert

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

– Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

– Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.

– Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

– Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.

– Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

– Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Joseph Joubert

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

– Joseph Joubert

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

– Joseph Joubert

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.

– Joseph Joubert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

– Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Joseph Joubert

Children need models rather than critics.

– Joseph Joubert

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

– Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

– Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

– Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

– Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

– Joseph Joubert