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Biography - André Gide:

French author. Nobel Prize in Literature (1947).
Born: 1869 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.


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Source: Ainsi soit-il ou Les jeux sont faits

Google Books - Gide - Ainsi soit-il (fr) 



Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.

German
Glaube denen, die die Wahrheit suchen, und zweifle an denen, die sie gefunden haben.




See also 

See also...



One can demand of me that I seek truth, but not that I must find it.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it.




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Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.











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André Gide also said...


The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.





My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.





Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.





May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.





A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.












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