Anatole France

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

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

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

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

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.