There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you.… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely… — James Keller Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity. — Richard Carlile Copy Share Image
Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
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