We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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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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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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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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All ought to be common among friends.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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