If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
More Anatole France Quotes
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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