Top 100 Joubert Quotes
#1. One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002
Joseph Joubert
#2. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress (Joseph Joubert).
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#3. Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
Joseph Joubert
#5. The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
Joseph Joubert
#6. Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Joseph Joubert
#7. It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
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#10. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
#11. There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
Joseph Joubert
#13. Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
Joseph Joubert
#14. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
#15. The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph Joubert
#16. Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
Joseph Joubert
#17. Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Joseph Joubert
#18. It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
#19. Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
Joseph Joubert
#20. Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Joseph Joubert
#21. The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Joseph Joubert
#22. The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Joseph Joubert
#23. Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
Joseph Joubert
#24. The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
Joseph Joubert
#26. The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
Joseph Joubert
#27. If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
Joseph Joubert
#28. What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
Joseph Joubert
#29. The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
Joseph Joubert
#31. Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Joseph Joubert
#32. The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert
#33. Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
#36. God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
Joseph Joubert
#37. Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
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#38. The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.
Joseph Joubert
#39. Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
Joseph Joubert
#40. Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
Joseph Joubert
#41. God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph Joubert
#44. Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
Joseph Joubert
#45. A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Joseph Joubert
#46. It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
Joseph Joubert
#47. All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert
#48. Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Joseph Joubert
#49. One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
Joseph Joubert
#50. Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
Joseph Joubert
#52. Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another ...
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#53. How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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#55. Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Joseph Joubert
#56. Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
Joseph Joubert
#57. One of the most underutilized resources we have on the planet today is the good intentions of citizens and our willingness to make a difference.
Kosha Joubert
#59. A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
Joseph Joubert
#60. Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
Joseph Joubert
#61. The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Joseph Joubert
#62. Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,
like everything inspired.
Joseph Joubert
#64. We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Joseph Joubert
#66. Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Joseph Joubert
#67. 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 feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Joseph Joubert
#68. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
Joseph Joubert
#69. It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Joseph Joubert
#70. Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.
Joseph Joubert
#71. I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
Joseph Joubert
#72. No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Joseph Joubert
#73. Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
#74. Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
Joseph Joubert
#75. Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joseph Joubert
#78. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
#79. All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Joseph Joubert
#80. The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
Joseph Joubert
#81. We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.
Joseph Joubert
#82. life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.
Irma Joubert
#83. Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
Joseph Joubert
#85. The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.
Joseph Joubert
#86. Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
Joseph Joubert
#88. The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
#89. The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Joseph Joubert
#90. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert
#91. Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
Joseph Joubert
#92. The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
Joseph Joubert
#93. Like every other Christmas Eve, she went to Grandpa John's room, because they were the only ones who knew how long the yearning for another person could last, long after everyone else had forgotten.
Irma Joubert
#94. We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
Joseph Joubert
#95. Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
Joseph Joubert
#96. I resemble the poplar,
that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
Joseph Joubert
#97. One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Joseph Joubert
#98. Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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