# Quote — Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

> One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.

- Author: [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md)
- Book: [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md)
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