Quotes by Anatole France

Anatole France

French writer (ps. of J. A. Thibault)

Alive from: 1844-1924

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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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 do know and what you don't.

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

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  Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

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  I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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  It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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  It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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  It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

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  A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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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.

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  Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.

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  History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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

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  If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.