Anatole France Quotes: 15

• In art as in love, instinct is enough.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

• 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.

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

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

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

• To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

• Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

  The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

• The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

• The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

• It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

  The Garden of Epicurus