Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 6

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Our life is woven wind.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

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.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.