Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

We teach what we need to learn.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

This life is a process of learning.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I like to learn about things.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.