Quotes by Joseph Joubert

About Joseph Joubert:

Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which was published posthumously.
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Space is the stature of God.

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Joseph Joubert

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joseph Joubert

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Joseph Joubert

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Joubert
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • BornMay 7, 1754
  • DiedMay 4, 1824
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Essayist; Writer