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Ambition
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-Anatole France
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Authors & Writing
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
-Anatole France
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Change
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Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pierced with multitudinous points of light. Jeanne presses her hand to her forehead as she leans upon the window-bar, and seems a little sad. And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die in one life before we can enter into another!
And as if answering my thought, the young girl murmurs to me.
"My guardian, I am so happy; and still I feel as if I wanted to cry!"
http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft_djvu.txt
-Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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Dogs
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
-Anatole France, The Coming of Riquet
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Education
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"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."
-Anatole France
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Imagination
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"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
-Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvester Bernard, 1881
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Libraries
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me.
-Anatole France
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Teaching
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"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
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Books by and about Anatole France
