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Quote of André Gide - A straight path never leads anywhere...


Biography - André Gide:

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

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Un chemin droit ne mène jamais qu'au but.

German
Ein gerader Weg führt immer nur ans Ziel.




See also 

See also...



He who walks straight rarely falls.




Quotes for: way


Quotes

Quotes for: way


If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.





Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.





One never goes so far as when one no longer knows where one is going.





Each man must invent his own path.





The way up and down is one and the same.





Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.











Quotes

André Gide also said...


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





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.












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