To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEAn education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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