Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
More Anatole France Quotes
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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