Anatole France Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

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

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

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

The more you say, the less they remember.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

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

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Intelligent women always marry fools

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

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

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

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

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

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

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.