Quotes by Anatole France
The following are quotes from Anatole France:
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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.
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.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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