We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTChildren need models rather than critics.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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