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.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer [pseud. of Jaques-Anatole-François Thibault]
(Attributed)
Also attrib. to William Feather.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer [pseud. of Jaques-Anatole-François Thibault]
(Attributed)
Beware, my lord! Beware lest stern Heaven hate you enough to hear your prayers!
Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer [pseud. of Jaques-Anatole-François Thibault]
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
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 into another!
Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer [pseud. of Jaques-Anatole-François Thibault]
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, 2.4 (20 Sep) (1881) [tr. L. Hearn (1890)]
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.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer [pseud. of Jaques-Anatole-François Thibault]
The Red Lily, ch. 7 (1884)
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