Quote of Katherine Mansfield - It is of immense importance to...
Biography - Katherine Mansfield:
New Zealand modernist and short story writer.
Born: 1888 - Died: 1923
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: New Zealand
Born: 1888 - Died: 1923
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: New Zealand
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes for: to learn
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Quotes for: laughter
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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