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Joseph Joubert
(7 May 1754 - 4 May 1824)
French essayist and philosopher who is best known for his Pensées (1838, 'Thoughts'). His associate René de Chateaubriand edited a small volume from his papers.
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Science Quotes by Joseph Joubert (5)
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour paraître profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides.
How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.
How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.
— Joseph Joubert
Quoted in M. Paul De Raynal, Pensées de J. Joubert (1862), 456.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
— Joseph Joubert
In Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 245.
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up.
— Joseph Joubert
In Pensées and Letters of Joseph Joubert (1928), 74.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
In Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of Thought (1894), 459.
To teach is to learn twice.
— Joseph Joubert
Pensées and Letters of Joseph Joubert (1928), 122.
