Joseph Joubert Quotes

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

The brain is wider than the sky.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Capability means imagination.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.