Anatole France Quotes

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.
Anatole France

Change, Life, Die

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.
Anatole France

Education, Between, Able

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Dreams, Great, Dream

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France

Pet, Soul, Until

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France

Art, Love, Enough

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.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

Life, True, Made

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France

Mind, Heart, Naive

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Acceptance, Personal, Against

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Teacher, Art, Young

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France

Imagination, Nothing, Everything

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France

Women, Men, Interested

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France

Love, Work, Working

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Art, Able, Chance

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

Wisdom, Enthusiasm, Folly

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France

Beautiful, Path, Ask

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France

Life, Truth, Everything

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France

Nature, Human, Fashion

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France

Nature, Good, Evil

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France

Books, Library, Left

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France

Love, Religion, Great

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

History, Lies, Books

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France

Life, Short, Another

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

Happiness, Love, Down

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: April 16, 1844

Died: October 12, 1924

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