Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

To teach is to learn twice.

Never cut what you can untie

لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Children need models rather than critics.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Imagination is the eye of the soul

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Close your eyes and see.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

Everything has its poetry. 94

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

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.

Children always want to look behind mirrors.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert I

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their for-tune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die ― but asleep!

The soul paints itself in our machines.

It is better to debate a decision without settling it than settling a decision without debating it. JOSEPH JOUBERT

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility. All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.

Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

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

Clearness is so eminently one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself,'' wrote Joseph Joubert, the French "man of letters

Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.

Há pessoas que, da moral, só têm um pedaço. É um tecido de que nunca farão um fato.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Es preciso que exista algo sagrado

Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois

في الفترات المضطربة، لا تكمن الصعوبة في تقديم واجبنا، وإنما في معرفته.

We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.

Cercando la parola si trovano i pensieri.

We find little in a book but what we put there,’ Joseph Joubert said. ‘But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Joubert said one should never write about something they’re not passionate about as a writer. (Joseph)

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002

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

El objetivo de la argumentación o de la discusión, no debe de ser la victoria, si no el progreso

nineteenth-century French essayist Joseph Joubert, who is said to have remarked: “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

For worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

Tenderness is the repose of passion. — Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. (NYRB Classics; Main edition May 10, 2005) Originally published October 1983.