The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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