385 Quotes by 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.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.