“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Consistency
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“Children need models rather than critics.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“The passions of the young are vices in the old.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Ask the young. They know everything.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To teach is to learn twice.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Teacher
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“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Superstition
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“Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Charity
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“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Spirituality
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“Space is the stature of God.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Painting
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“Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Ornaments were invented by modesty.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Modesty