Quote of Abbé Pierre - Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting...
Biography - Abbé Pierre:
Born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès. French Catholic priest, he startet international solidarity movement to help poor and homeless people.
Born: 1912 - Died: 2007
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1912 - Died: 2007
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: to know
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Quotes for: to will
The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.
Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
Quotes for: to dare
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
Quotes for: responsibility
when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Abbé Pierre also said...
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