Prejudices are the props of civilization

Quote by Andre Gide

Topics: Civilization Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for...

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for...

Therefore is a word the poet must not know.

Therefore is a word the poet must not know.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when...

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when...

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I...

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding...

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding...

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the...

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the...