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. ↗

— Anatole France

#afterwards #art #awakening #curiosity #minds

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. ↗

— Anatole France

#everything #imagine #know #nothing

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

#art #chance #come #could #earth

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. ↗

— Anatole France

#little #lot #misunderstand #than #understand

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

#learn #love #loving #run #running

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. ↗

— Anatole France

#clothes #interested #like #men #never

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. ↗

— Anatole France

#charming #delicious #everything #frightful #horrible

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

— Anatole France

#act #fashion #human #human nature #nature

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

#folly #i #indifference #prefer #wisdom

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. ↗

— Anatole France

#great #great service #love #making #religion