You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. — Joseph Joubert 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
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself… — 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
