Joseph Joubert
38 quotations
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
To teach is to learn twice.
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Children need models rather than critics.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.