Quote of André Gide - The best means of learning to...
Biography - André Gide:
French author.
Born: 1869 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1869 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
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Quotes for: to learn
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.”
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: to understand
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.
Quotes about others:
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
Quotes about oneself:
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.
André Gide also said...
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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