Never cut what you can untie.

Quote by Joseph Joubert

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Patience Quotes

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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

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

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.

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.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

Space is the stature of God.

Space is the stature of God.

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

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

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract...

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract...

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

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

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

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness it is usually returned

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness it is usually returned

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

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

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

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

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

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness...

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness...