401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Heaven is for those who think of it.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Great minds are those that disguise their limits, that mask their mediocrity.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?