Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
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
Heavens
Thinks
Fool
Wise
Heaven
Great
Thinking
More quotes by Voltaire
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Voltaire
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
Voltaire
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Voltaire
War is the greatest of all crimes and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
Voltaire
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Voltaire
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
Voltaire
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.
Voltaire
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
Voltaire
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
Voltaire
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
Voltaire
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Voltaire
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Voltaire
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.
Voltaire
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
Voltaire
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Voltaire
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
Voltaire