It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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