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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Anatole France

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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 France

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.
Anatole France

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

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

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France

In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: French
Born: April 16, 1844
Died: October 12, 1924

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