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 FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
More Anatole France Quotes
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Yet, 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.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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 by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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