A collection of quotes and sayings by Anatole France on soul, beauty, love, work, speak, dreams, believe, curiosity, innocence, virtue, art, equality, joy and nature.
70 Insightful Quotes By Anatole France For Blue Sky Thinking
Anatole France was an illustrious French novelist, poet and journalist who was also been one of the best-selling writers of his times. He is referred to as the ideal French Man of Letters who was a pioneer in the genre of irony and scepticism. In 1921, he was awarded the ‘Noble Prize in Literature’. His father was a bookseller and Anatole cultivated love for books from a very young age as he was mostly surrounded with books. Besides writing poems and novels, Anatole expressed his thoughts, opinions and viewpoints on subjects close to his heart through memoirs, plays and social criticism. However, he has been considered ‘vulgar’ by some critics for his dubiousness and cynicism. Go through the sayings and quotes by Anatole France which will give you a glimpse of his prolific writings and thoughts. Presenting some famous quotes and thoughts by Anatole France on education, animals, fashion, coverage, poverty, naive, enthusiasm, conversations, changes, life and more.
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 accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
(From an introductory speech at a session of the Acadmie Franaise, December 24, 1896)
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
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.
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
Anatole France
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
Anatole France
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
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.
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
Anatole France
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! 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
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a
Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho
most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged
to admire...
Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says
“What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love?
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
Gelehrte sind Menschen, die sich von normalen Sterblichen durch die anerworbene Fhigkeit unterscheiden, sich an weitschweifigen und komplizierten Irrtmern zu ergtzen.
Anatole France
Meilės kaltės bus atleistos,
nes tyroj meilėj nėra nieko pikta. Bet jausmingoj
meilėj yra tiek pat neapykantos, egoizmo ir
apmaudo, kiek ir meilės.
Anatole France
All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.
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