Henri Frdric Amiel Famous Quotes
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
A belief is not true because it is useful.
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
"Love is faith, and one faith leads to another."
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
"A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt."
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.
"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality."
"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life."
All appears to change when we change.
"Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Hope is only the love of life.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering."
Henri Frdric Amiel Quotations
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."
William Shakespeare
"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."
William Penn
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
Edwin Booth
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E B White
"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."
Leonard Bernstein
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
Sir John Lubbock
"There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals."
Francis Bacon
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Pablo Picasso
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe."
Frank Rizzo
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Plutarch