Book Quote by Joseph Joubert Download Open image “Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book reading Conscience Ethics Reading Soul Spirituality Taste
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The Knower of ‘taste’ is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
