Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
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
Right
Clever
Men
Period
Time
Periods
Fool
Gets
Wrong
Guesses
Persons
Cleverness
Person
Regardless
More quotes by Voltaire
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
Voltaire
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
Voltaire
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Voltaire
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
Voltaire
To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
Voltaire
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
Voltaire
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire
The public is a ferocious beast one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
Voltaire
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
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
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
Voltaire
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
Voltaire
