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

Quote by Joseph Joubert

Topics: Past Quotes, Trust Quotes

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...

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

To teach is to learn twice.

To teach is to learn twice.

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

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

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...

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things...

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things...

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.

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is the truth in action.

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

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

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

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

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

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time is the great art of man.

Time is the great art of man.

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate