385 Quotes by Andre Gide

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.