Fables Quotes

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

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 alike in being big with wonder.

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.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.