You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quote by Joseph Joubert

Topics: Poetry Quotes

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

To teach is to learn twice.

To teach is to learn twice.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

A Flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own

A Flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is the truth in action.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she...

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she...

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

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

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

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

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

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

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

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Ask the young. They know everything.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they...

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they...

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who...

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who...