Joseph Joubert Quotes on Communication
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
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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.
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Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
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The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf I am dumb.
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
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We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.