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
writing fancy rooms
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
character humility echoes
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.
positive education children
Children need models rather than critics.
bees reason usefulness
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
inspirational life education
To teach is to learn twice.
life cutting interesting
Never cut what you can untie.
pain half feels
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
inspirational intelligence victory
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
inspirational education knowledge
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
love kindness women
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
crush errors delight
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
light flames fire
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
giving joy
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.