Quotes from Andre Gide

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

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

Solitude is bearable only with God

It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

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

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

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

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.

The color of truth is grey.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us