Joseph Joubert: Quotes about thinking

“To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think.”

“To seek the truth. But, as you are seeking and as you are waiting, what will you do, what will you think, what will you practice, what rules will you follow?”

“When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.”

“The things we know when not thinking of them.”

“What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?”

“When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.”

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

“Think nothing outside their paper.”

“Because they know all the words, they think they know all the truths.”

“To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason.”

“One always adds a little of one's soul to what one thinks.”

“Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.”

“The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”