quotes by Joseph Joubert

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth."
— Joseph Joubert

"Imagination is the eye of the soul"
— Joseph Joubert

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
— Joseph Joubert

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
— Joseph Joubert

"Children need models rather than critics."
— Joseph Joubert

"Children always want to look behind mirrors."
— Joseph Joubert

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
— Joseph Joubert

"The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books. "
— Joseph Joubert

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own"
— Joseph Joubert

"Never cut what you can untie"
— Joseph Joubert

"To teach is to learn twice."
— Joseph Joubert

"It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102"
— Joseph Joubert (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert)

"Everything has its poetry. 94"
— Joseph Joubert (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert)

"The breath of the mind is attention 128"
— Joseph Joubert (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert)

"The paper is patient, but the reader is not."
— Joseph Joubert (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert)

"genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them."
— Joseph Joubert

"We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live."
— Joseph Joubert

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
— Joseph Joubert

"The great drawback in new books is that they prevent our reading the old ones"
— Joseph Joubert