110+ Joseph Joubert Quotes On Education, Thoughtful And Profound

Joseph Joubert was a French writer and moralist of the 18th century. He was known for his aphorisms and essays on philosophy, morality, education, and literature. He was a close friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his writings have been widely quoted by many authors and philosophers. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Joseph Joubert on life, love, education.

Top 10 Joseph Joubert Quotes

1. Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
2. Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
3. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
4. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
5. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
6. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
7. We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
8. Imagination is the eye of the soul.
9. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
10. To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert Image Quotes

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. — Joseph Joubert

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — Joseph Joubert

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. — Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. — Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Short Quotes

• Close your eyes and you will see.
• Children need models rather than critics.
• Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
• All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
• Politeness is the flower of humanity.
• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
• Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
• The passions of the young are vices in the old.
• Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Life

The evening of life brings with it its lamps. — Joseph Joubert

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. — Joseph Joubert

Work like you don't need the money. — Joseph Joubert

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

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life. — Joseph Joubert

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them. — Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. — Joseph Joubert

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. — Joseph Joubert

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Love

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert

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

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures. — Joseph Joubert

Fear loves the idea of danger. — Joseph Joubert

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty. — Joseph Joubert

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. — Joseph Joubert

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

When we love, it is the heart that judges. — Joseph Joubert

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. — Joseph Joubert

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Thoughtful

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it. — Joseph Joubert

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver. — Joseph Joubert

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. — Joseph Joubert

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. — Joseph Joubert

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. — Joseph Joubert

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. — Joseph Joubert

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen. — Joseph Joubert

Speech is but the incorporation of thought. — Joseph Joubert

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power. — Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Profound

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. — Joseph Joubert

Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void. — Joseph Joubert

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Truth

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. — Joseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action. — Joseph Joubert

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts. — Joseph Joubert

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them. — Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert

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

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

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. — Joseph Joubert

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. — Joseph Joubert

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Progress

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert

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. — Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Opinions

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. — Joseph Joubert

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. — Joseph Joubert

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About People

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. — Joseph Joubert

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

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert

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! — Joseph Joubert

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Quotes About Wings

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. — Joseph Joubert

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.] — Joseph Joubert

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. — Joseph Joubert

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Famous Quotes And Sayings

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. — Joseph Joubert

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — Joseph Joubert

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. — Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. — Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Joseph Joubert

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

Our worries always come from our weaknesses. — Joseph Joubert

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. — Joseph Joubert

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert

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

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is the rest of passion. — Joseph Joubert

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? — Joseph Joubert

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. — Joseph Joubert

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

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. — Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. — Joseph Joubert

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first. — Joseph Joubert

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. — Joseph Joubert

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. — Joseph Joubert

The paper is patient, but the reader is not. — Joseph Joubert

Chance generally favors the prudent. — Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. — Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything. — Joseph Joubert

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. — Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious. — Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time. — Joseph Joubert

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. — Joseph Joubert

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. — Joseph Joubert

God has commanded Time to console the afflicted. — Joseph Joubert

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. — Joseph Joubert

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! — Joseph Joubert

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy — Joseph Joubert

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes — Joseph Joubert

Space is the stature of God. — Joseph Joubert

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence. — Joseph Joubert

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

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. — Joseph Joubert

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. — Joseph Joubert

Slander is the solace of malignity. — Joseph Joubert

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. — Joseph Joubert

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. — Joseph Joubert

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. — Joseph Joubert

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct. — Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty. — Joseph Joubert

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. — Joseph Joubert

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior. — Joseph Joubert

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. — Joseph Joubert

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved. — Joseph Joubert

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself. — Joseph Joubert

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. — Joseph Joubert

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. — Joseph Joubert

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. — Joseph Joubert

Politeness smooths wrinkles. — Joseph Joubert

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

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert

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

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert

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

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate. — Joseph Joubert

Life Lessons by Joseph Joubert

1. Joseph Joubert believed that the purpose of life was to think and reflect, and that it was important to cultivate a sense of wonder and curiosity.
2. He also believed that it was important to be mindful of the present moment and to appreciate the beauty of the world around us.
3. He encouraged people to be honest and authentic in their lives, and to strive to be the best version of themselves.