Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERTChildren need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTTo teach is to learn twice.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThere was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGenius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe 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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTSuperstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWords, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERTA part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow 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 JOUBERTJustice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOne who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGrace 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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERT