Truth Quote by Andre Gide — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

“The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.”

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.”

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

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

“As he learns the Truth, the Truth will automatically free him.”

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we”

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.”

“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”