Anatole France Quotes

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.