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 FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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