All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOne who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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