385 Quotes by Andre Gide

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.