Anatole France Quotes
- “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
- “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
- “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 not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- “We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
- “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
- “To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
- “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
- “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
- “In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”
- “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
- “It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
- “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
- “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind 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.”
- “Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!”
- “It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
- “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.”
- “Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
- “I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
- “When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
- “The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
- “Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
- “A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
- “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ”
- “Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.”
