Gustave Flaubert Quotes

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times

Read much, but not many books.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.