Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Joseph JoubertThere is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph JoubertLife is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
Joseph JoubertFancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
Joseph Joubert