Fables Quotes

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

Nature, Characters, Fantasy

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

Nothing, Self, Lies

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.
Hypatia

Great, Pain, Mind

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.
Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy, Big, 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.
Francis Bacon

Mind, Rather, Universal

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

Faith, Today, Tell

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.
William Feather

Experience, Wisdom, Wise

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.
Robert Anton Wilson

Earth, Church, Nobody

Natural history is not about producing fables.
David Attenborough

History, Natural, Producing

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
Tony Kushner

Time, History, Gay

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
Michael Morpurgo

Hero, Christian, Kids

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
Zoe Lister-Jones

Women, Yourself, Person

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

Play, Took, Theater

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