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Most Quotes by Andre Gide
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
- Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
- Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do…
- I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
- The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my…
- I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely…
- Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
- What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there…
- Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
- The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be…
- The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
- The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
- The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
- The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are,…
- Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write…
- The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
- Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could…
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