Quote #66
The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf I am dumb.
More from Joseph Joubert
- The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
- The passions of the young are vices in the old.
- The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
- The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
- The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
- The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
- The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.