Children need models rather than critics.

Quote by Joseph Joubert

Topics: Children Quotes, Criticism Quotes

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

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...

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Space is the stature of God.

Space is the stature of God.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth

Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth

God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their...

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their...

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for...

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for...

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.

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

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

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the...

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the...

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become...

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become...