black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCE

Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Change Growth Live
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE

People Weakness
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
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

Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Himself Principle
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

Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
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

Commitment Difference Education Memories
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Collection Goodness Walk
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

Equality Food Law Poor Rich
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Deep Man Stars
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 Death Life Ourselves Sadness
It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCE

Love Oneself
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Anatole France Quotes