Anatole France Quotes
Born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1921).
(1844 - 1924)
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
[Inspiration]
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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.
[Change]
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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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.
[Education]
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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And the thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.
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Cicero was in politics a moderate of the most violent description.
[Politics]
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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.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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He had no knowledge and had no desire to acquire any; wherein he conformed to his genius whose engaging fragility he forbore to overload; his instinct fortunately telling him that it was better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
[Enthusiasm]
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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