Anatole France Famous Quotes
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
"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."
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe."
"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."
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
"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."
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
"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."
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."
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.
"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."
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France Quotations
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.
Jim Morrison
"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."
Helmuth von Moltke
Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
"...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
John Ruskin
"Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love."
Walt Whitman
"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization."
Jon Bentley
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Mickey Friedman
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard