10 Joseph Joubert Quotes on Communication

Joseph Joubert quotes on communication

14. Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

23. 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.

50. Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety

59. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

63. The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

66. The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf I am dumb.

69. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

90. We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own.

100. Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

101. Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.