“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 know and what you don't.”

“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 know and what you don't.”

“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)”

“All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.”

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)”

“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”

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

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

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

“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”

“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”