Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.