One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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