Quotes by Joseph Joubert

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees. — Joseph Joubert
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. — Joseph Joubert
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. — Joseph Joubert
There are those to whom one must advise madness. — Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. — Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. — Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert
Chance usually favors the prudent man. — Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics. — Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. — Joseph Joubert
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same. — Joseph Joubert
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax. — Joseph Joubert
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics. — Joseph Joubert
Think of the ills from which you are exempt. — Joseph Joubert
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains. — Joseph Joubert
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile. — Joseph Joubert