Joseph Joubert Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Ambition

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

• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Mind

• How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reputation, Made

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.147

• There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, World

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Excess, Littles

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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