Pierre Bayle Quotes

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Thought, Being, First, Invention, Wit)

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Thought, Being, First, Invention)

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: History, Nothing, Race)

"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Illusion, May, Opinion)

"I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist."
- Pierre Bayle

"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Soul, Protest, Sense)

"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Truth, Acceptance, Opinion)