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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.

Anatole France

Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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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Discover Kind Truth
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People

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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