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.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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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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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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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