“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”

— Anatole France, Pierre Nozière, 1899, book II

About Anatole France

1844 – 1924

French poet, journalist and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1921).

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

“What we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.”

“What is truth but to live for an idea?”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”

“Human happiness consists in living according to reason.”

“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”