Joseph Joubert quotes and words of wisdom

"To teach is to learn twice."
Found in the topic Learn.

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
Found in the topic Debate.

"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear."
Found in the topic Word.

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
Found in the topic Poetry.

"Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice."
Found in the topic Virtue.

"Never cut what you can unravel."
Found in the topic Cut.

"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."
Found in the topic Strength.

"Children need models more than they need critics."
Found in the topic Parents.

"The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it."
Found in the topic Old.

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Found in the topic Illusions.

"All are born to observe order, But few are born to establish it."
Found in the topic Epithet.

"Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself."
Found in the topic Self.

"How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die ? but asleep!"
Found in the topic Growth.

"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
Found in the topic Deserve.

"It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debating it."
Found in the topic Discussion.

"Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy."
Found in the topic Necessity.

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
Found in the topic Argument.

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
Found in the topic Finish.

Interesting Quotes

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot - English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877)

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley - English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)