France, Anatole

"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."

"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me."

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture."

"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal."

"Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned." - Crainquebille

"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces." - La Vie litt'raire

"In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing." - Penguin Island

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them." - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

"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 Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another." - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard