But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“Stretched out before the fire I looked at the glowing fruit and said to myself that men did not know what an orange was.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
