Quote #29
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
More from Joseph Joubert
- It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
- It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
- Innocence is always unsuspicious.
- Justice is the truth in action.
- In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
- Liberty! Liberty! In all things let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.
- In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
- Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.