“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Education
“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.”
WorkAll Quotes by Anatole France
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
War“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Pet“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
Nature“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Nature“The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Equality“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
Courage“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Wisdom“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Men“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Imagination“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Equality“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
Great“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.”
Change“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Education“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
Fear“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”
Best“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
Truth“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
Wisdom“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
Art