Truth Quotes by Anatole France

8 Truth quotes by Anatole France

Anatole France’s take on truth appears in eight succinct statements. His satirical, elegant prose offers a quick sense of his nuanced view on honesty. Perfect for a brief, literary read.

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

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“He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue.…

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“This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to…

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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ...…

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“Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not…

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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For…

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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

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

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

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The future is a convenient place for dreams.

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“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the…

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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But…

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop…

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

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Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay…

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