Famous Quotes / Anatole France
68 Quotations by Anatole France
- 1. A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- 2. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part ...
- 3. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able ...
- 4. Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
- 5. Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
- 6. Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th ...
- 7. Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
- 8. He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very gre ...
- 9. History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
- 10. I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
- 11. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
- 12. I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to l ...
- 13. If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.
- 14. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- 15. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- 16. In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- 17. Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
- 18. Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
- 19. It is almost systematic to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes u ...
- 20. It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.