“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

— Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, 1883

About Joseph Joubert

1754 – 1824

French moralist and essayist, author of the "Pensées".

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

“We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven.”

“Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.”

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”

“In the beginning was thought, and her name was Woman.”

“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”