Joseph Joubert Zitate auf Englisch

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

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Joseph Joubert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

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.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

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.

Joseph Joubert

Space is the stature of God.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Joseph Joubert

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joseph Joubert

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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.

Joseph Joubert