Top 250 Joseph Joubert Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.”

— Joseph Joubert

152. “Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.”

— Joseph Joubert

153. “Everything that is exact is short.”

— Joseph Joubert

154. “There are those to whom one must advise madness.”

— Joseph Joubert

155. “Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.”

— Joseph Joubert

156. “The breath of the mind is attention 128.”

— Joseph Joubert

157. “Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.”

— Joseph Joubert

158. “Space is the stature of God.”

— Joseph Joubert

159. “Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation, – like everything inspired.”

— Joseph Joubert

160. “In bringing up a child, think of its old age.”

— Joseph Joubert

161. “TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.”

— Joseph Joubert

162. “Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.”

— Joseph Joubert

163. “Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.”

— Joseph Joubert

164. “Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”

— Joseph Joubert

165. “One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.”

— Joseph Joubert

166. “There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.”

— Joseph Joubert

167. “We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own.”

— Joseph Joubert

168. “The soul paints itself in our machines.”

— Joseph Joubert

169. “How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.”

— Joseph Joubert

170. “Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.”

— Joseph Joubert

171. “A temperate style is alone classical.”

— Joseph Joubert

172. “Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.”

— Joseph Joubert

173. “Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.”

— Joseph Joubert

174. “It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.”

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Joseph Joubert

176. “There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.”

— Joseph Joubert

177. “Our life is woven wind.”

— Joseph Joubert

178. “Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.”

— Joseph Joubert

179. “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

180. “Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.”

— Joseph Joubert

181. “We disjoint the mind like the body.”

— Joseph Joubert

182. “Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.”

— Joseph Joubert

183. “To see the world is to judge the judges.”

— Joseph Joubert

184. “We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.”

— Joseph Joubert

185. “There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.”

— Joseph Joubert

186. “The idea of the nest in the bird’s mind, where does it come from?”

— Joseph Joubert

187. “God is the place where I do not remember the rest.”

— Joseph Joubert

188. “The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one’s soul.”

— Joseph Joubert

189. “Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.”

— Joseph Joubert

190. “Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.”

— Joseph Joubert

191. “Living requires but little life; doing requires much.”

— Joseph Joubert

192. “How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!”

— Joseph Joubert

193. “Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.”

— Joseph Joubert

194. “Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience...”

— Joseph Joubert

195. “Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.”

— Joseph Joubert

196. “Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.”

— Joseph Joubert

197. “No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.”

— Joseph Joubert

198. “Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.”

— Joseph Joubert

199. “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

200. “Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.”

— Joseph Joubert