Joseph Joubert Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Travel, Age

• Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Age, Honored

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

• Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligent, Men, Age

  "Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.

• The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Age, Lamps

• We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Business, Ideas, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• 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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Age, Innocence

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

  Joseph Joubert

  Morning, Children, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

• Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Age, Quality

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

  Joseph Joubert

  Age, Lamps, Evening

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

• In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Thinking, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

• In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Clothes, Age, Youth

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

• To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Age, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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