The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever cut what you can untie.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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