It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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