Quotes by Gide, Andre

Sin is whatever obscures the soul. >>

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. >>

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most li >>

Quotations about Knowledge

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in >>

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools >>

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. >>

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre