The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTChildren need models rather than critics.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Space is the stature of God.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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