Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.