Quote

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

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Seek
Opinion
Rather
Often
Life
Persisting
People
Educating
Occasions
Opinions

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
Image
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Andre Gide
Image
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
Andre Gide
Image
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
Image
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
Image
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
Andre Gide
Image
Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
Image
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Andre Gide
Image
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
Image
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
Image
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
Andre Gide
Image
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
Andre Gide
Image
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
Andre Gide
Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
Andre Gide
Image
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide
Image
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide