Joseph Joubert Truth Quotations

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

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