Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

Related Quotes:

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

" To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. "

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

" Society lives by faith, and develops by science. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Common sense is calculation applied to life. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. "

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

" Order is power. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" True humility is contentment. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

" I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. "

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

" The only substance properly so called is the soul. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

" Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. "

Henri Frederic Amiel