Jeseph Joubert Famous Quotes
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
Never cut what you can untie.
"Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty"
To teach is to learn twice.
Children need models more than they need critics.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Justice is the truth in action.
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
Jeseph Joubert Quotations
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
"Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to."
F Scott
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Anon
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
Eric Gibson
"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'"
Dorothea Kent
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."
Alben William Barkley
N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
Franklin D Roosevelt
"If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great."
Hesiod
"Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers."
American Proverb
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."
Shirley Mount Hufstedler