Famous Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Below are famous quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer (1900 - 1944).

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

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