Andre Gide Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

  Andre Gide

  People, Opinion, Occasions

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

• Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, People, Opinion

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.196, Vintage

• An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

  Andre Gide

  Important, Trying, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

  Andre Gide

  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin