Top 15 Joseph Joubert Quotes

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

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

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

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

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

To teach is to learn twice.

Never cut what you can untie

لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Children need models rather than critics.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Imagination is the eye of the soul

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.