There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — 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
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind… — 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 hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
