Our passions are ourselves.
ANATOLE FRANCEAn 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! 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.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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