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Biography - André Gide:

French author.
Born: 1869 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

André Gide

Translation

(French, German)

Le meilleur moyen pour apprendre à se connaître, c'est de chercher à comprendre autrui.

André Gide

Das beste Mittel, sich selber kennenzulernen, ist der Versuch, andere zu verstehen.

André Gide

Quotes for: to learn

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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.”

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History

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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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Quotes for: to understand

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

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Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Phillips Feynman

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

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Quotes about others:

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

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If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.

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others

Let the other side be heard as well.

Seneca

others

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Quotes about oneself:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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André Gide also said...

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

André Gide

My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

André Gide

May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth

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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

André Gide - Fruits of the Earth

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

André Gide

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