“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
Joseph Joubert Quotes
1754 – 1824
French moralist and essayist, author of the "Pensées".
26 quotesAbout Joseph Joubert on Wikipedia
“Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.”
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”
“It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.”
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”
“He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.”
“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”
“Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”
“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”
“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”
“You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.”
“In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy.”
“The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”
“Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.”
