Joseph JoubertWhen a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1896). Pensées of Joube… ▶371Thought
Joseph JoubertGood impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1867). Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert, p.63373Thought
Joseph JoubertThe mind's direction is more important than its progress.341Thought
Joseph JoubertThe talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. ✨ The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.<… ▶363LoveReading
Joseph JoubertWe always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.363Thought
Joseph JoubertChance generally favors the prudent.342Politics
Joseph JoubertBefore you use a fancy word, make room for it.375Time
Joseph JoubertYou have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.342Truth
Joseph JoubertDrawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1896). Pensées of Joubert365Sadness
Joseph JoubertEvery legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1896). Pensées of Joubert321Hope
Joseph JoubertThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.376Reading
Joseph JoubertBefore using a fine word, make a place for it. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1928). Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert366Time
Joseph JoubertOrnaments were invented by modesty. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1867). Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert, p.64366Thought
Joseph JoubertWithout duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.356Life
Joseph JoubertA 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 wi… ▶345Truth
Joseph JoubertHow many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.379Humanity
Joseph JoubertCommon sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.368Philosophy
Joseph JoubertMisery is almost always the result of thinking. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1928). Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert291Thought
Joseph JoubertWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. ✨ The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.302Reading
Joseph JoubertGod is the place where I do not remember the rest.324Thought
Joseph JoubertProverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.291Philosophy
Joseph JoubertVirtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1867). Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert, p.87335Thought
Joseph JoubertOur ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.314Thought
Joseph JoubertThe 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.325Reading
Joseph JoubertOld age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. ✨ Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert. Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.326PhilosophyReading
Joseph JoubertOur worries always come from our weaknesses. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1896). Pensées of Joubert304Politics
Joseph JoubertWe may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own293Sadness
Joseph JoubertWords are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.293Humanity
Joseph JoubertThe mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1867). Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert, p.141359SadnessThought
Joseph JoubertWithout the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. ✨ Joseph Joubert (1867). Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert, p.32348LoveThought
