(94 quotes found)
“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.”
Joseph Joubert
“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
“All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought”
“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight”
“Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety”
“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.”
“They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night”
“Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another”
“Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence”
“Words like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision”
