Joseph Joubert Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

• Ask the young. They know everything.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Children, Humorous

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

• 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

• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Pain, Wrinkles

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

• Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Pride, Men

• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Children, Parent

• 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

• Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Firsts, Disputes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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