Quote

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Joseph Joubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Patient
Reader
Paper

More quotes by Joseph Joubert

Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Joseph Joubert
Image
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
Image
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
Joseph Joubert
Image
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
Joseph Joubert
Image
You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
Image
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.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Work like you don't need the money.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph Joubert
Image
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
Joseph Joubert