Quotes from Henri Frdric Amiel

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.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

All appears to change when we change.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

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.

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.

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

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.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

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