Andre Gide Quotes

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

I think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself... I could do everything based on how I want to do things.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.