When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are… — André Gide Copy Share Image
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
