To teach is to learn twice.
¶ (Attributed)
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Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
¶ (Attributed)
Never cut what you can untie.
¶ (Attributed)
Words, like eyeglasses, obscure everything they do not make clear.
¶ (Attributed)
Children have more need of models than of critics.
¶ Pensees
(also attrib. Carolyn Coats)
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
¶ Pensees
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
¶ Pensees (1806)
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