André Gide

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

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

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