It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Never cut what you can untie.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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