Joseph Joubert Quotes

France, Essayist
May 7, 1754 – May, 4, 1824.

Joseph Joubert (French: [ʒɔzɛf ʒubɛʁ]) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert
- Words
- Vision
- Obscure
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert
- Friend
- Marriage
- Choose
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Joseph Joubert
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert
- Religion
- Souls
- Capable
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Joseph Joubert
- Search
- Honey
- Bees
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert
- Mind
- Pain
- Delight
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Joseph Joubert
- Thinking
- Result
- Misery