There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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