The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCEYet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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