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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHe who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
-
-
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Never cut what you can untie.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT