Joseph Joubert Quotes

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Books always help.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.