Andre Pol Gijom Gide quotes Born: 11/20/1869 Died: 02/19/1951 Country: france

• Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? (Andre Gide) [sound]
• Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. (Andre Gide) [being]
• Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. (Andre Gide)
• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (Andre Gide)
• The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. (Andre Gide) [life/future/more]
• Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. (Andre Gide) [give]
• A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. (Andre Gide) [path/objective]
• Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. (Andre Gide) [more/men/god/more]
• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. (Andre Gide) [people]
• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. (Andre Gide) [ugly/development]
• Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. (Andre Gide)
• Not everyone can be an orphan. (Andre Gide) [orphan]
• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. (Andre Gide) [men/pleasure/]
• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. (Andre Gide) [art]
• Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. (Andre Gide) [beauty/prayer/love/pity]
• Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide) [truth/find]
• No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. (Andre Gide) [rest/condition]
• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. (Andre Gide)
• Sin is whatever obscures the soul. (Andre Gide) [sin]
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide) [courage]
• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. (Andre Gide) []
• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. (Andre Gide) [art]
• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. (Andre Gide)
• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)
• Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)
• Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. (Andre Gide)
• Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. (Andre Gide)
• God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. (Andre Gide)
• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. (Andre Gide)
• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. (Andre Gide)

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