Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubertwas a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 May 1754
CountryFrance
Joseph Joubert quotes about
love kindness women
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
inspirational education knowledge
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
pain half feels
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
inspirational intelligence victory
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
positive education children
Children need models rather than critics.
life cutting interesting
Never cut what you can untie.
inspirational life education
To teach is to learn twice.
littles action
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
writing fancy rooms
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
fathers-day dad rip
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
anticipation sunlight
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
inspirational life eye
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
writing glasses vision
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
evil abuse foundation
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.