56 Quotes & Sayings By Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert was a French writer and essayist whose work has been described as "a model of clarity and lucidity." His "Essay on the Art of Reading" is considered to be "one of the most important essays on literary criticism ever written." His other works include: Essai sur la poésie (Essay on Poetry); La logique de l'art (The Logic of Art), and Leçons de l'art de penser (Lessons in the Art of Thinking).

Everything has its poetry. 94
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Everything has its poetry. 94 Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of...
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not. Joseph Joubert
It is not my words that I polish, but my...
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey, you must expect...
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When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees. Joseph Joubert
The worst thing about new books is that they keep...
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. Joseph Joubert
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Tenderness is the repose of passion. Joseph Joubert
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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. Joseph Joubert
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Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course. Joseph Joubert
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Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility. All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness. Joseph Joubert
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Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. Joseph Joubert
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There are those to whom one must advise madness. Joseph Joubert
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. Joseph Joubert
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The breath of the mind is attention 128 Joseph Joubert
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear. Joseph Joubert
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Chance usually favors the prudent man. Joseph Joubert
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Children have more need of models than of critics. Joseph Joubert
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The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same. Joseph Joubert
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Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax. Joseph Joubert
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What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. Joseph Joubert
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt. Joseph Joubert
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Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains. Joseph Joubert
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny. Joseph Joubert
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When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile. Joseph Joubert
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Joseph Joubert
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Without duty life is soft and boneless. Joseph Joubert
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Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. Joseph Joubert
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Without duty life is soft and bone less. Joseph Joubert
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. Joseph Joubert
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny. Joseph Joubert
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Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Joseph Joubert
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Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together. Joseph Joubert
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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. Joseph Joubert
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Never cut what you can untie. Joseph Joubert
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Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it. Joseph Joubert
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Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done. Joseph Joubert
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. Joseph Joubert
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
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To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert
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Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. Joseph Joubert
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
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Space is to place as eternity is to time. Joseph Joubert
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. Joseph Joubert
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. Joseph Joubert
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Joseph Joubert
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Justice is the truth in action. Joseph Joubert
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert
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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
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Joseph Joubert
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Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert