Andre Gide Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

  Andre Gide

  Pride, Thoughtful, Intelligent

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.305, Routledge

• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

  Andre Gide

  Understanding, Experience, Looks

• True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

  Andre Gide

  Kindness, Empathy, Joy

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

• Understanding is the beginning of approving.

  Andre Gide

  Understanding, Approving

• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

  Andre Gide

  Understanding, Feelings, Capable

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