Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Reality, Doubt, Ends

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Reflection, Order, Doubt

• Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophy, Doubt, And Love

• Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Doubt, Tyranny, Accomplices

• Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Peace, Light, Voice

  Entry for April 06, 1851, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

• I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Husband, Father

  Entry for May 03, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

• I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Doubt, Shade

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