Joseph Joubert

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

— Joseph Joubert

#stubbornness #stupidity #love

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

— Joseph Joubert

#difficulties #dreams #sacrifice #success #dreams

To teach is to learn twice. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#teach #twice

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

— Joseph Joubert

#expect #go #honey #must #search

Never cut what you can untie. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#never #you

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

— Joseph Joubert

#choose #friend #man #only #were

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. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#appear #create #hide #how #make

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

— Joseph Joubert

#debate #debating #question #settle #settling

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

— Joseph Joubert

#argument #discussion #progress #should #victory

Imagination is the eye of the soul. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#imagination #soul