Articles Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Articles Fables Faith Religion Today Yesterday
“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?” — Montaigne Copy Share Image
“ Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy? How many things served us yesterday for articles of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little… — George Ade Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image