Creative Quotations from . . .
Henri Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881) born on Sep 27
Swiss writer. "He is best known for his "Journal" which is considered a masterpiece of self-analysis."
 
   
F
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe."

R
"Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring . . ."
A
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
N
The great artist is the simplifier.
K
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "In "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations," by Robert Andrews, 1989"
N: ""Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872," entry for 25 Nov. 1861"
K: "In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."



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