Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
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
Academy
Formed
Greatness
Independent
Either
Great
Men
Academies
More quotes by Voltaire
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
Voltaire
What can we say with certainty?
Voltaire
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
Voltaire
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
Voltaire
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Voltaire
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
Voltaire
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Voltaire
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
Voltaire
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
Writing is the painting of the voice.
Voltaire
We must cultivate our own garden.
Voltaire
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
