Quotes by Anatole France

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

#Action, #Ideas, #Living

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom

#Irony

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

#Justice

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value...

#Gifts, #Poverty

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and...

#Quotations

Silence is the wit of fools.

#Silence

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best

#Self Interest

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown

#Talent

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of...

#Teachers And Teaching

Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia...

#Utopia

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall...

#Art, #War

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man...

#Wonder