All Joseph Joubert Quotes
- Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Almost Always
- He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Education
- You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Bring
- All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. All
- Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. Charitable
- Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Alone
- Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. Always Children
- Space is to place as eternity is to time. Eternity
- Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Base
- The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Brings
- There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. Act
- Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. Aid
- Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of… Beauty
- The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach… All
- We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own Arguements
- The breath of the mind is attention 128 Attention
- There are those to whom one must advise madness. Advise
- Ask the young. They know everything. Ask
- The passions of the young are vices in the old. Old
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. Book
- No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. Good
- Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them. Country
- Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. Consists
- When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. Dread
- Close your eyes and you will see. Close