Quotes
Quotes - France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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.
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.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
Never lend booksânobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
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.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
