Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Victory, Intelligence

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Kindness, Women

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Never cut what you can untie.

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  Life, Cutting, Interesting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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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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  Nature, Humorous, Profound

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

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  Truth, Anticipation, Sunlight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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  Kindness, People, Glad

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• Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

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  Eyeglasses, Vision, Blur

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

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  Anger, Hiking, Long Walks

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• Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

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  Found, Poetry Is

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

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  Inspirational, Truth, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

  Joseph Joubert

  May, Convince

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• You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

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  Self Respect, Ears, Want

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Children need models rather than critics.

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  Positive, Education, Children

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• Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Order

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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

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  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

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  Truth, Loving Nature, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Excellence

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• We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

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  Kindness, Should, Benevolence

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

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

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  Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

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• The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

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  Life, Age, Innocence

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Selfishness, Introducing

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