The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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