Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Often
Life
Persisting
People
Educating
Occasions
Opinions
Seek
Opinion
Rather
More quotes by Andre Gide
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
Andre Gide
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
Andre Gide
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre Gide
What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Andre Gide
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Andre Gide
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
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
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
Andre Gide
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
