Famous Quotes / Joseph Joubert
73 Quotations by Joseph Joubert
- 1. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- 2. All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
- 3. Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- 4. Ask the young. They know everything.
- 5. Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
- 6. Before using a fine word, make a place for it!
- 7. Chance usually favors the prudent man.
- 8. Children have more need of models than of critics.
- 9. Children need models more than they need critics
- 10. Children need models rather than critics.
- 11. Debt shortens life.
- 12. Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
- 13. Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
- 14. Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
- 15. Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bo ...
- 16. Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
- 17. He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
- 18. How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms ...
- 19. Imagination is the eye of the soul.
- 20. It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.