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 JOUBERTInnocence is always unsuspicious.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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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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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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