Joseph Joubert
French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824
20 quotes.
Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- Chance generally favors the prudent.
- Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
- Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
- He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
- Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It does not uproot.
- In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
- It is better to make one's self acceptable than to make one's self important.
- Justice is truth in action.
- Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
- Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
- The aim of disputation and discussion should not be victory, but improvement.
- The pleasure of giving is necessary to true happiness; but the poor may have it.
- Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
- To teach is to learn twice.
- We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.
- We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
- We should. do good whenever we can, and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
- Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it can no longer hold itself erect.
- You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.