Joseph Joubert Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

30 Famous Quotes by Joseph Joubert
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“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”
Admiration Quotes
“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.”
Catholicism Quotes
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
Debate Quotes
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
Imagination Quotes
“Justice is the truth in action.”
Justice Quotes
“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
Kindness Quotes
“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people”
Mediocrity Quotes
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
Misery Quotes
“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
Space Quotes
“Tenderness is the repose of Passion”
Tenderness Quotes
“Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.”
Questions Quotes
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
Ambition Quotes
“Children have more need of models than critics.”
Children Quotes
“Chance generally favors the prudent.”
Fate Quotes
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
Labor Quotes
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
Learning Quotes
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”
Consistency Quotes
“To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.”
Education Quotes
“Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.”
Generosity Quotes
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
Genius Quotes
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.”
Imagination Quotes
“Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
Life Quotes
“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.”
Literature Quotes
“They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.”
Maxim Quotes