Anatole France Quotes
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
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.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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.
