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Émile Zola

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Biography - Émile Zola:

French novelist, playwright and journalist.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1902
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.


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Quote source: Aventures du grand Sidoine et du petit Médéric

Wikisource - Zola - Contes à Ninon (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Rien ne développe l'intelligence comme les voyages.

German
Nichts entwickelt die Intelligenz wie das Reisen.




See also 

See also...



It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.




Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.











Quotes

Quotes for: travel


A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Laozi / 





Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.





Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.





Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.





Travel teaches toleration.











Quotes

Émile Zola also said...


Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.





I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.





A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.





Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.





Knowing where you want to go is a good start; but you have to show you are on your way.





If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.












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