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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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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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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