We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. — Joseph Joubert Business Copy Share Image
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Ancient Copy Share Image
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. — Joseph Joubert Alive Copy Share Image
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are… — Joseph Joubert Bible Copy Share Image
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. — Joseph Joubert Confidence Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How… — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
