Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
More Anatole France Quotes
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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 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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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