Joseph Joubert: Quotes about thinking

Joseph Joubert was French moralist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

Joseph Joubert: 506 quotes18 likes

“One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.”

“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.”

Joseph Joubert

Context: 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. Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body, and soul.

“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?”

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

Joseph Joubert

“Think nothing outside their paper.”

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

“Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.”

Joseph Joubert

“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.”

Joseph Joubert