To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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.
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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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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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