The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWe must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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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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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