People who don't count won't count. Anatole France More Quotes by Anatole France More Quotes From Anatole France The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. Anatole France The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign. Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. Anatole France There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. Anatole France To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. Anatole France To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture. Anatole France When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. Anatole France well naive mind heart Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France good good-and-evil nature evil It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France think human-nature fashion nature The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. Anatole France wise-man man fool wise 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. Anatole France face equality law sleep
