Author: Anatole France

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

- Anatole France

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

- Anatole France

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

- Anatole France

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

- Anatole France

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

- Anatole France

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

- Anatole France

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

- 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.

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

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

- Anatole France

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