Joseph Joubert Quotes

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Joseph Joubert
"It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up"
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"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another"
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Joseph Joubert
"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
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Ambition
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"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
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Ability
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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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Future
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"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."
Joseph Joubert
Direction

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Joseph Joubert
"When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it"
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Admiration
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"Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man"
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Man
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"There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are"
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
"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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Books And Reading
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"Tenderness is the repose of Passion"
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Passion
Joseph Joubert
"Tenderness is the rest of passion."
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Passion Tenderness
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight"
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
"Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence"
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Joseph Joubert
"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
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Excellence
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"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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Poetry Poetry And Poets
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"Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them"
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Joseph Joubert
"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."
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Humorous
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"To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself"
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Joseph Joubert
"Never cut what you can untie."
Joseph Joubert
Common Sense

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