I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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