Joseph Joubert Mind Quotations

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage.

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

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

The breath of the mind is attention 128

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

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

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.