The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCEI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
More Anatole France Quotes
-
-
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
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.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
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.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
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 -
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE