I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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