Top 15 Anatole France Quotes

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

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.

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.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

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.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.

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.