Joseph Joubert Quotes

Words like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Never cut what you can untie.

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up.

God has commanded Time to console the unhappy.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Children need models rather than critics.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.