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.
-- Anatole France
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
-- Anatole France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
-- Anatole France
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
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France
To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change a social order which I have been commissioned to preserve. Justice is the means whereby established injustices are sanctioned.
-- Anatole France
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
-- Anatole France
The good critic is one who tells of his mind's adventures among masterpieces.
-- Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
-- Anatole France
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
-- Anatole France
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
-- Anatole France
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
-- Anatole France
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
-- Anatole France
The impotence of God is infinite.
-- Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
-- Anatole France
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
-- Anatole France
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
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.
-- Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
-- Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
-- Anatole France
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
-- Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
-- Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
-- Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
-- Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
-- Anatole France
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
-- Anatole France
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
-- Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
-- Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
-- Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
-- Anatole France
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
-- Anatole France
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem— and in my esteem age is not estimable.
-- Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
-- Anatole France
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
-- Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
-- Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
-- Anatole France
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, none ever will.
-- Anatole France
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
-- Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
-- Anatole France
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
-- Anatole France
Silence is the wit of fools.
-- Anatole France
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
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
-- Anatole France
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
-- Anatole France
The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.
-- Anatole France
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
-- Anatole France
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
-- Anatole France
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
-- Anatole France
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
-- Anatole France
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
-- Anatole France
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
-- Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
-- Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
-- Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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