Andre Gide Quotes

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

I always admired Niels Bohr for uttering his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one in the possession of definite truth.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

The more I see, the less I know.