Famous Anatole France Quotations

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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."
by Anatole France
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
by Anatole France
"Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil."
by 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."
by Anatole France
"I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men"
by Anatole France
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
by Anatole France
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
by 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."
by 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."
by Anatole France
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work."
by Anatole France
"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
by Anatole France
"How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!"
by Anatole France
"If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing."
by Anatole France
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
by Anatole France
"It is better to understand little than to understand a lot."
by Anatole France
"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."
by Anatole France
"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
by Anatole France
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
by Anatole France
"Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me."
by Anatole France
"Nothing spoils a confession like repentance."
by Anatole France
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life."
by Anatole France
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."
by Anatole France
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them."
by Anatole France
"People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them"
by Anatole France
"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."
by Anatole France
"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."
by Anatole France
"The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
by Anatole France
"The impotence of God is infinite."
by Anatole France
"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."
by Anatole France
"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."
by Anatole France
"There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion."
by Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
by Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe."
by Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe."
by Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
by Anatole France
"To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture."
by Anatole France
"To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture."
by Anatole France
"To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures."
by Anatole France
"To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture."
by Anatole France
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
by Anatole France
"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
by Anatole France
"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
by Anatole France
"'An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.''"
by Anatole France
"In art as in love, instinct is enough."
by Anatole France
"A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself."
by Anatole France
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."
by Anatole France
"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
by Anatole France
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
by Anatole France
"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
by Anatole France
"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."
by Anatole France
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
by Anatole France
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
by Anatole France
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
by Anatole France
"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
by Anatole France
"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
by Anatole France
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
by Anatole France
"When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
by Anatole France
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
by Anatole France
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
by Anatole France
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."
by Anatole France
"Some succeed becuase the are destined to; most succeed becuase they are determined to."
by Anatole France


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