Andre Gide Quotes
- A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
- Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
- So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but…
- It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
- A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
- I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
- Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
- It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
- The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
- If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
- The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
- Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
- Prejudices are the props of civilization.
- Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
- The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.