Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 2

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligent, Men, Age

  "Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.

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• 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

  Heart, May, Rooms

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

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• We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

  Joseph Joubert

  May, Convince

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Happiness, Aspect, Deserve

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• To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Respect, Worthy, Capable

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.120

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• Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

  Joseph Joubert

  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Pain, Eye, Talking

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Twenties, Letters

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• 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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Age, Innocence

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

  Joseph Joubert

  Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Genius, Standards

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Consistency, Feelings, Opinion

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• In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

  Joseph Joubert

  Happiness, Thinking, Order

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• Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Weakness

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.65

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Glasses, Vision

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  History, Mind, Progress

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• The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Atmosphere, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.12

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• 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

  Character, Humility, Echoes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Selfishness, Introducing

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Men

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• I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

  Joseph Joubert

  Tree, Looks, Youth

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• 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

  Truth, Loving Nature, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• 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

  Growing Up, Pain, People

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