Joseph Joubert
289 quotes
Biography
"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
"لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة"
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
"We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
"Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement."
"We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness."
"God has commanded time to console the afflicted."
"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."
"Ask the young. They know everything."
"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."
"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."
"Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be."
"Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions."
"All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste."
"When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world."
"To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as rare as to be worthy of it."
"Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève."
"To teach is to learn twice over."
"He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing."
"Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air."
"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."
"It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything."
"Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?"
"Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking."
"Wisdom is the strength of the weak."