Swiss

Popular quotes, proverbs and sayings by Nationality

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Belief

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

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Change

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Character

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Cleverness

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Common Sense

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

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Communication

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.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Genius

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

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Genius

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Greatness

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

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Happiness

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Humankind

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Humankind

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.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Age

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Character

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Common Sense

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 s

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Education

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.

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Giving

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

» More quotes from: Henri Frédéric Amiel about: Humankind

Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Daily Quote

03 November 2025

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Hannah Arendt

Excess

Quotes by Category:
	Art & Culture Countries Defects Feelings	Politics Nature Science & Technology Society	Time Thought & Reason Various Virtues
Top Quotes
	Age America Business Death Economy Education	Freedom Friendship Humankind Life Literature Love	Music Politics Proverbs Religion Truth Work

Quotes by Author:
	Abraham Lincoln Alan Greenspan Albert Einstein Anonymous Aristotle Barack Obama Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin Bill Gates Chinese Proverb Francis Bacon F. Rochefoucauld F. Nietzsche George Bernard Shaw George Eliot	George W.Bush Gilbert K.Chesterton Henry D.Thoreau Henry L. Mencken Hillary Clinton Johann W.Goethe Lord Byron Marcus T.Cicero Margaret Thatcher Mark Twain Matt Groening Montaigne Nelson Mandela Oliver Goldsmith Orison S.Marden	Plutarch Proverb Rainer M. Rilke Samuel Butler Samuel T.Coleridge Stephen Hawking Steve Jobs Thomas B.Macaulay Tony Blair Virginia Woolf Vladimir Putin Walt Disney Warren Buffett William Penn William Wordsworth

Quotes by Nationality:
	Albanian American Arabian Argentinian Austrian Brazilian British Canadian Chilean Chinese Colombian Cuba Czech	Danish Dutch English French German Greek Indian Iranian Irish Israeli Italian Italy Japanese	Jewish Nepal New Zealand Polish Portuguese Roman Romanian Russian Scottish South African Spanish Swiss

Quotes by Profession:
	Author Businessman Cartoonist Comedian Economist Educator Essayist	Journalist Leader Mathematician Musician Novelist Painter Philosopher	Physicist Poet Politician Scientist Writer Anonymous Proverb

Swiss

Popular quotes, proverbs and sayings by Nationality

Síguenos en Twitter y Facebook

Síguenos en Twitter
y Facebook