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 FRANCEThe wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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 books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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