It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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 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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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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