The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTChildren need models rather than critics.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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