Joseph Joubert Quotes
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the futu...
Show MoreWithout duty life is soft and bone less.
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Never cut what you can untie.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
The breath of the mind is attention 128
Tenderness is the repose of passion.
Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.
Everything has its poetry. 94
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost ...
Show MoreThrough memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
To teach is to learn twice.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bo...
Show MoreSpace is to place as eternity is to time.
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
Justice is the truth in action.
