Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
-
-
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.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
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.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Ask the young. They know everything.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
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.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT