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Quotes by Anatole France - (17 quotes)

Anatole France - From the Accomplishment category:

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Activity category:

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Books category:

The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Books category:

Never lend a book, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that others have lent me. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Change category:

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Critics category:

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Deception category:

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Education category:

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 know and what you don't. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Enthusiasm category:

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Imagination category:

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Innocence category:

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Journey category:

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Pets category:

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Quotations category:

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Relaxation category:

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Travel category:

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. (Anatole France)

Anatole France - From the Truth category:

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom. (Anatole France)