J Joubert Quotes & Sayings

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert

Like every other Christmas Eve, she went to Grandpa John's room, because they were the only ones who knew how long the yearning for another person could last, long after everyone else had forgotten. — Irma Joubert

One of the most underutilized resources we have on the planet today is the good intentions of citizens and our willingness to make a difference. — Kosha Joubert

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves. — Joseph Joubert

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream. — Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

Fear loves the idea of danger. — Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul — Joseph Joubert

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. — Joseph Joubert

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. — Joseph Joubert

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge. — Joseph Joubert

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

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders. — Joseph Joubert

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

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.
All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness. — Joseph Joubert

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. — Joseph Joubert

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry — Joseph Joubert

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. — Joseph Joubert

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul. — Joseph Joubert

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it. — 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

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

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

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious. — Joseph Joubert

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

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. — Joseph Joubert