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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
—
Anatole France
tags:
imagination
21 people liked it
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
—
Anatole France
9 people liked it
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
"
— Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
3 people liked it
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
—
Anatole France
tags:
life
6 people liked it
"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."
—
Anatole France
tags:
anatole
,
france
3 people liked it
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
—
Oscar Wilde
tags:
heaven
,
humor
888 people liked it
"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
—
Stephen Fry
tags:
humor
,
originality
64 people liked it
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
—
Mario Puzo
(
The Godfather
)
35 people liked it
"I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words"
—
Alfred de Vigny
(
Stello
)
tags:
children
,
heroes
,
monsters
3 people liked it
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
—
Groucho Marx
tags:
books
,
humor
,
reading
,
television
2,878 people liked it
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
—
Bill Watterson
(
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
)
tags:
humor
,
idiots
,
life
659 people liked it
"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
—
Woody Allen
tags:
absurd
,
atheism
,
humor
377 people liked it
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. "
—
Pete Seeger
tags:
education
,
humor
116 people liked it
"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal."
—
Groucho Marx
134 people liked it
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
—
Umberto Eco
48 people liked it
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
—
Jorge Luis Borges
tags:
books
,
library
3,184 people liked it
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