The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTTo teach is to learn twice.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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