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 FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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