39 Quotes By Anatole France


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

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 on art

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 on art

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France on best

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 on change

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.
Anatole France on courage

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

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 on education

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France on education

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France on education

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 on equality

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France on equality

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France on fear

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France on future

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France on god

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France on god

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France on government

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

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

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