The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCEAn 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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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