Famous Quotes / Andre Gide
64 Quotations by Andre Gide
- 21. Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm ...
- 22. Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own developme ...
- 23. Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm ...
- 24. Long only for what you have.
- 25. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- 26. Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
- 27. Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- 28. Never cease to be convinced that life might be better -- your own and others.
- 29. No theory is good unless it permits not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on con ...
- 30. Not everyone can be an orphan.
- 31. Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
- 32. Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
- 33. Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
- 34. Nothing noble is done without risk.
- 35. Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you your ...
- 36. Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
- 37. Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined ...
- 38. One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
- 39. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- 40. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.