Andre Gide Life Quotations

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

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.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

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.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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.