We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOne who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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