Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 2

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Work like you don't need the money.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.