Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubertwas a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 May 1754
CountryFrance
love happiness happy
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
nature humorous profound
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
time youth young
Ask the young. They know everything.
respect worthy capable
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
inspirational life-is duty
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
agriculture kind excellent
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
disguise great mask minds
Great minds are those that disguise their limits, that mask their mediocrity.
imagination man untrained wings
The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet.
ideas polish
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
eye drawing talking
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
beauty beautiful garden
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
paper patient reader
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
genius invisible paint
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
together life-is togetherness
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.