Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
Joseph Joubert
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Well
Cease
Needs
Distance
Perspective
Events
Sort
History
Facts
Attested
Wells
Malleable
More quotes by Joseph Joubert
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Joseph Joubert
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
Joseph Joubert
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
Joseph Joubert
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Joseph Joubert
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
Joseph Joubert
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Joseph Joubert
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
Joseph Joubert
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Joseph Joubert
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
Joseph Joubert
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
Joseph Joubert
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
Joseph Joubert
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Joseph Joubert
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
Joseph Joubert
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Joseph Joubert
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Joseph Joubert
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
Joseph Joubert
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Joseph Joubert