Andr Gide Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Andr Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. Andr Gide Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. Andr Gide Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andr Gide Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it. Andr Gide Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. Andr Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andr Gide In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. Andr Gide It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andr Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andr Gide One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andr Gide 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. Andr Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious. Andr Gide There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Andr Gide
