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

Quote by Joseph Joubert

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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...

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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

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

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

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

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

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

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...

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...

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms....

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms....

Space is the stature of God.

Space is the stature of God.

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

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

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.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great...

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great...

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

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

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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.