Fables Quotes

140 quotes by 119 authors

Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. — Francis Bacon
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are… — Thomas Aquinas
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;… — Edward Gargan
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would by all means have men beware, lest Ã†sop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at… — Francis Bacon
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. — George Perkins Marsh
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde.… — Francis Bacon
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables — Charles Spurgeon
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good… — Charles Warren Stoddard
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism… — Will Durant
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened… — Joseph Conrad
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. — Alexander Pope
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize… — Marc Maron

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