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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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