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Quote of Anatole France - An education which does not cultivate...


Biography - Anatole France:

French poet, journalist and novelist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1924
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.



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Quotes for: will


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Quotes about will:


Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.





A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.





Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.





As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.





We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.





Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.











Quotes for: education


Quotes

Quotes about education:


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.





All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.











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Anatole France also said...


That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.





All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.





In art as in love, instinct is enough.





As we get older, we realise that the rarest courage is that of thinking.





I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.





To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.












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