Famous Quotes / Joseph Joubert
73 Quotations by Joseph Joubert
- 21. It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
- 22. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
- 23. Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
- 24. Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
- 25. Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
- 26. Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
- 27. Never cut what you can untie.
- 28. Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w ...
- 29. Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w ...
- 30. No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
- 31. One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
- 32. Ornaments were invented by modesty.
- 33. Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
- 34. Politeness is the flower of humanity.
- 35. Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough o ...
- 36. Space is the stature of God.
- 37. Space is the stature of God.
- 38. Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
- 39. Tenderness is the rest of passion.
- 40. The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.