Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The way to become boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
Author
Autobiographer
Correspondent
Diarist
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Political Scientist
Paris
France
François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Dictator of Letters
Boring
Silence
Become
Everything
Way
More quotes by Voltaire
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.
Voltaire
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
Voltaire
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
Voltaire
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
Voltaire
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire
Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?
Voltaire
Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.
Voltaire
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
Voltaire
Dare to think for yourself.
Voltaire
What can we say with certainty?
Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
Voltaire
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
Voltaire
Change everything except your loves.
Voltaire
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire
All pleasantry should be short and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
Voltaire
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Voltaire
