64 Quotes About Fables

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.