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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.”
“Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.”
“Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.”
“If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”
“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.”
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.”
“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.”
“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.”
“Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.”