401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.