Books Quote by Joseph Joubert

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

— Joseph Joubert

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

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

— Joseph Joubert

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

— Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

— Joseph Joubert

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

— Joseph Joubert

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

— Joseph Joubert

God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

— Joseph Joubert

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

— Joseph Joubert

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

— Joseph Joubert

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

— Joseph Joubert