Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 2

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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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• We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

  Joseph Joubert

  Kindness, Should, Benevolence

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

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• Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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.

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  Heart, May, Rooms

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• Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

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  Beautiful, Genius, Labor

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.139

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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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• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

  Joseph Joubert

  Trust, Past, Safety

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

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  Writing, Glasses, Vision

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

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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.

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  Character, Humility, Echoes

  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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• All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Garden

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

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

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  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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• When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

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

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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!

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  Growing Up, Pain, People

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• 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.

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  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Consistency, Feelings, Opinion

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• Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Ideas, Ministry

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• If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

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  Deeds, Rich, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

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  Appreciate, Able, Critics

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

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  Mind, Genius, Standards

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

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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

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  Soul, Religion, Superstitions

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Doe, Wrenches

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.105

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