Anatole France Quotes About Knowledge
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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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.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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