Anatole France

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.