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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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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End Life People
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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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Book Library Myself People
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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