Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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
Understand
Action
Prompted
Cannot
Motives
Motive
Profit
Actions
Whose
Hope
More quotes by Andre Gide
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Andre Gide
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
Andre Gide
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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
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
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
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
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide