Perfection Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“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

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

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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