Joseph Joubert People Quotations

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

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

Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre 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.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.