“All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.”
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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.”
Source: Some of the
“Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Fear loves the idea of danger.”
Source: Some of the
“When you give, give with joy and smiling.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.”
“The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.”
Source: Some of the
“Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Some of the
“Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.”
Source: Some of the
“Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.”
“Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?”
“In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Living requires but little life; doing requires much.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Some of the
“Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.”
“In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
Source: Some of the
“There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert