Famous Quotes

Quotes by Joseph Joubert

• A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
• Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
• 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.
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
• Imagination is the eye of the soul.
• Justice is the truth in action.
• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
• One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
• Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
• Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
• You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.