A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a… — Joseph Joubert Crosses Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Amenities Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Books Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Corners Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Agriculture Copy Share Image
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Convince 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when… — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. — Joseph Joubert Common Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert Can do Copy Share Image
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. — Joseph Joubert Aspect Copy Share Image
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Funny Copy Share Image
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we… — Joseph Joubert Company Copy Share Image
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and… — Joseph Joubert Enough Copy Share Image
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by… — Joseph Joubert Attention Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Active Copy Share Image
