Joseph Joubert Quotes

Most popular Joseph Joubert Quotes

To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert quote.
To teach is to learn twice.

teaching

Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Never cut what you can untie.
— Joseph Joubert

conflict

Politeness smoothes wrinkles. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Politeness smoothes wrinkles.
— Joseph Joubert
Tenderness is passion in repose. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Tenderness is passion in repose.
— Joseph Joubert

kindness

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.

imagination

Politeness is the flower of humanity. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
— Joseph Joubert
Chance usually favors the prudent man. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
— Joseph Joubert
Logic works; metaphysics contemplates. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
— Joseph Joubert
Without duty, life is soft and boneless. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
— Joseph Joubert
Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Children need models rather than critics.
— Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellence to the mediocre. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Mediocrity is excellence to the mediocre.

mediocrity

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

vice & virtue

A thought is a thing as real as a cannon ball. - Joseph Joubert quote.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannon ball.

thoughts

The passions of the young are vices in the old. - Joseph Joubert quote.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
— Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than critics. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Children have more need of models than critics.

example

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state. - Joseph Joubert quote.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.
— Joseph Joubert
An ounce of apology is worth a pound of loneliness. - Joseph Joubert quote.
An ounce of apology is worth a pound of loneliness.
— Joseph Joubert

apologies

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
— Joseph Joubert
The mind's direction is more important than its progress. - Joseph Joubert quote.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
— Joseph Joubert

mind

The beautiful! It is beauty seen with the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert quote.
The beautiful! It is beauty seen with the eye of the soul.
— Joseph Joubert
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

asking questions

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty! - Joseph Joubert quote.
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
— Joseph Joubert
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

self-reliance

Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.

power

Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.
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boring people boredom

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. - Joseph Joubert quote.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

imagination education

Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air.

thoughts

Words like eye glasses, blur everything they don't make clear. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Words like eye glasses, blur everything they don't make clear.
— Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring it with you. - Joseph Joubert quote.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring it with you.
— Joseph Joubert
Whence? Whither? Why? How? These questions cover all philosophy. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Whence? Whither? Why? How? These questions cover all philosophy.
— Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert quote.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

kindness

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. - Joseph Joubert quote.
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.
— Joseph Joubert
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clearer. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clearer.
— Joseph Joubert

words language

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

duty

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. - Joseph Joubert quote.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

discussion socialism arguments

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. - Joseph Joubert quote.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
— Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
— Joseph Joubert

opinions

Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

religion

We measure mind by that stature, it would be better to estimate them by their beauty. - Joseph Joubert quote.
We measure mind by that stature, it would be better to estimate them by their beauty.
— Joseph Joubert
Success serves men as a pedestal; it makes them look larger, if reflection does not measure them. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Success serves men as a pedestal; it makes them look larger, if reflection does not measure them.
— Joseph Joubert
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. - Joseph Joubert quote.
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.

decision-making

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
— Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. - Joseph Joubert quote.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
— Joseph Joubert
Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow.
— Joseph Joubert
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts. - Joseph Joubert quote.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.
— Joseph Joubert
Ideas never lack for words.  It is words that lack ideas.  As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Ideas never lack for words.  It is words that lack ideas.  As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it.

ideas

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct; and although themselves blind, are protective.  They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct; and although themselves blind, are protective.  They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

maxims

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.
— Joseph Joubert

communication language