We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. — Joseph Joubert Disheartening Copy Share Image
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. — Joseph Joubert Business 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
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. — 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
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert Ability Copy Share Image
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself,… — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes,… — Joseph Joubert Erudition Copy Share Image
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. — Joseph Joubert Bird Copy Share Image
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Ancient Copy Share Image
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. — Joseph Joubert Alive Copy Share Image
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? — Joseph Joubert Bird Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Funny Copy Share Image
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. — Joseph Joubert Friendship Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Controversy Copy Share Image
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. — Joseph Joubert Duty Copy Share Image
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Arguments Copy Share Image