Quotes by Anatole France

“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.”

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

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

“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”

“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, ha...”

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

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

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(From an introductory speech at a session of the Acadmie Franaise, December 24, 1896)”

“We chase dreams and embrace shadows.”

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

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

“Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”

“For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.”

“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.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”

“I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.”

“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.”

“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”

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