Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
More Anatole France Quotes
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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