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.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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.
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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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