Anatole France Quotes

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.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

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.

Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

To imagine the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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

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 Quotes part 2

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan…believe…act!

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 only the ignorant who despise education.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

The gods had given me almost everything. But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease…Tantalized by glittering promises of wealth, and fame, and power,

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