Explore Quotes by Andre Gide

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

The color of truth is gray.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.