Quotes by Henri Amiel
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Amiel, Henri
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Amiel, Henri
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Amiel, Henri
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Amiel, Henri
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Amiel, Henri
To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
Amiel, Henri
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Amiel, Henri
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Amiel, Henri
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Amiel, Henri
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
Amiel, Henri
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Amiel, Henri
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
Amiel, Henri
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
Amiel, Henri