Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert

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.