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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

Total quotes: 31
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Leadership Quotes
Tagged: Leadership Quotes, Business Management, Management
“Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Friends Forever
“One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wisdom of the Sands(Citadelle)
Tagged: Philosophy, Principles, humanity, Learning, Teaching, imparting knowledge, Unity, unification, Society, Life
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, A quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tagged: True Love
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Wise Words
“I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Be yourself, Self-Confidence
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands
Tagged: Freedom, freedom of the mind, Mind, free mind, free thinking, Thinking
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Appreciation, Deep Meaning
“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Life Searching, senses
“I made him my friend and now he is unique in the world.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Friendships, friends for keeps
“Of course I love you, it is my fault that you have not known it all the while.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Romantic, Confession
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Children's Book Quotes, Children's Books, Life Lessons
“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Life
“Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanation over and over.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Life
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend...I shall not leave you.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“I was too young to know how to love her.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“I know a planet inhabited by a red faced gentleman. He’s never smelled a flower. He’s never looked at a star, He’s never loved anyone. He’s never done anything except add up numbers. And all day long he says over and over, just like you, ‘I’m a serious man! I’m a serious man!’ And that puffs him up with pride. But he’s not a man at all-He’s a mushroom!”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stop the overuse of overflow menus
Tagged: Design, User Experience, Product, Product Design
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey
Tagged: Love, Marriage
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon Ballerina
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Love
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Childrens Books, Meaning, purpose
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