Words matter. These are the best Joseph Joubert Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Justice is the truth in action.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Never cut what you can untie.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.