9 Joseph Joubert Quotes on Wisdom

Joseph Joubert quotes on wisdom

6. All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.

8. Ask the young. They know everything.

17. Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

33. Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

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

67. The passions of the young are vices in the old.

70. The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

75. There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

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