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 FRANCEScience 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.
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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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 average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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