Joseph Joubert Quotes

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

There's a lot of things that I appreciate that people can't appreciate.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.