The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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 mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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