Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
Found 21 thoughts of Andre Gide
Art is a collarboration between God an the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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
