Joseph Joubert > Quotes

“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

“لا أحب في الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة”
― Joseph Joubert

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
― Joseph Joubert

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
― Joseph Joubert

“To teach is to learn twice.”
― Joseph Joubert

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”
― Joseph Joubert

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Never cut what you can untie”
― Joseph Joubert

“Imagination is the eye of the soul”
― Joseph Joubert

“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books. ”
― Joseph Joubert

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Children need models rather than critics.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
― Joseph Joubert

“The breath of the mind is attention 128”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of 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

“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
― Joseph Joubert

“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”
― Joseph Joubert

“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”
― Joseph Joubert

“Children always want to look behind mirrors.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Everything has its poetry. 94”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
― Joseph Joubert

“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

“genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them.”
― Joseph Joubert

“The great drawback in new books is that they prevent our reading the old ones”
― Joseph Joubert