Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.Collection: Poetry
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.Collection: Marriage
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.Collection: Love
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Collection: Future
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.Collection: Learning
Imagination is the eye of the soul.Collection: Imagination
Space is to place as eternity is to time.Collection: Space
Never cut what you can untie.Collection: Wisdom
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.Collection: Alone
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.Collection: Dad
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.Collection: Learning
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.Collection: Anger
Justice is the truth in action.Collection: Truth
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.Collection: Poetry
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.Collection: Nature
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.Collection: Religion
To teach is to learn twice.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Children need models rather than critics.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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.
Space is the stature of God.
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.Collection: Kindness
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.Collection: Truth
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.Collection: History
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.Collection: Happiness
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.Collection: Thinking
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.Collection: Eyeglasses