Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDETo 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 GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDE