Anatole France Quotes

Biography: Anatole France is known for being a prominent French writer and Nobel ... more Biography: Anatole France is known for being a prominent French writer and Nobel Laureate. Born in 1844, his works often critiqued social and political issues of his time. Acclaimed novels such as "Thaïs" and "Penguin Island" reflect his sharp wit, skepticism, and humanism. France received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. less

"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.""It is better to sometimes err through excess of mercy than to allow any cause for just reproach.""Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.""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 and what you don't know.""If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.""It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.""The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he does not understand the amount of effort it takes to produce it.""People who have no weaknesses are terrible. There is no way of taking advantage of them.""Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another""The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them""The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever""Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened""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""To know is nothing at all to imagine is everything""Nine tenths of education is encouragement""The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything""If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing""It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion""To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe"

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