Anatole France

Showing quotations 1 to 16 of 16 total A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France 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. Anatole FranceAn 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 If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole FranceIt is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. Anatole FranceIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole FranceThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. Anatole FranceTo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Anatole FranceWhen a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre BonnardThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7

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