To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
More Anatole France Quotes
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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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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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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