Joseph Joubert's Quotes

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

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

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Space is the stature of God.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

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

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

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

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

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

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

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.