Henri Frederic Amiel's Quotes

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The best path through life is the highway.

Henri Frederic Amiel