The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGrace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
-
-
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
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 -
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
To teach is to learn twice.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT