4 Joseph Joubert Quotes on Language

Joseph Joubert quotes on language

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.

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.