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

Quote by Joseph Joubert about imagination

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.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation, people

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about imagination, soul

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about innocence

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

Quote by Joseph Joubert about question

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about god, contentment

Justice is the truth in action.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about rightness, action, justice, truth

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation, people

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about logic

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about family, fear, love

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about thinking

Never cut what you can untie.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

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

Quote by Joseph Joubert about emotions, writers, pleasure, contentment

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about imagination

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

Quote by Joseph Joubert about marriage, woman, man, contentment

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about politeness, garden, humanity

Space is the stature of God.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about univers, god

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about univers, eternity, time

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about superstitions, religion

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

Quote by Joseph Joubert about victory, progress