Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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