Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““In short, the alphabet was the origin of all man's knowledge, and of all his errors.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.” — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil lamp. And there were illuminated letters in the book before him, tiny figures fitted into the capitals, the whole gleaming as he let his hand, quivering, turn the page. "Ah, think of it," he said, smiling as he… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive. The” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like… — Robert Wilder Copy Share Image
“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
