Quotes by Joseph Joubert

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth."

"Children need models more than they need critics."

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

"We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own."

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."

"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

"Children need models rather than critics."

"To teach is to learn twice."

"Never cut what you can untie."

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

"Justice is the truth in action."