Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 4

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Everything that is exact is short.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

The breath of the mind is attention.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

A 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 will.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Ask the young. They know everything.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Slander is the solace of malignity.