Fable
noun
A short story, usually with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
The Fox and the Grapes is a famous fable that teaches us not to desire what we cannot have.
Often appears as...
- aesop's fable
- moral of the fable
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Literary
noun
A story or an account of something, which is not true.
The tale of the Loch Ness Monster is a fable that has been debunked many times.
Often appears as...
- fabricate a fable
- old wives' fable
noun
A short story, usually with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
The Fox and the Grapes is a famous fable that teaches us not to desire what we cannot have.
Often appears as...
- aesop's fable
- moral of the fable
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A story or an account of something, which is not true.
The tale of the Loch Ness Monster is a fable that has been debunked many times.
Often appears as...
- fabricate a fable
- old wives' fable
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Pro Tip 1/3Animal Characters
Fables often feature animals acting like humans to make the moral lesson more engaging.
In the fable, the tortoise showed great perseverance.
Pro Tip 2/3Timeless Lessons
The morals of fables apply to many situations across different cultures and times.
The fable about honesty being valuable still holds true today.
Pro Tip 3/3Short and Simple
Fables are brief and use simple language to ensure the moral is clear.
The fable ended with the line 'Slow and steady wins the race.'
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Characters
Fables often feature animals acting like humans to make the moral lesson more engaging.
In the fable, the tortoise showed great perseverance.
Pro Tip 2/3Timeless Lessons
The morals of fables apply to many situations across different cultures and times.
The fable about honesty being valuable still holds true today.
Pro Tip 3/3Short and Simple
Fables are brief and use simple language to ensure the moral is clear.
The fable ended with the line 'Slow and steady wins the race.'
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Characters
Fables often feature animals acting like humans to make the moral lesson more engaging.
In the fable, the tortoise showed great perseverance.
Pro Tip 2/3Timeless Lessons
The morals of fables apply to many situations across different cultures and times.
The fable about honesty being valuable still holds true today.
Pro Tip 3/3Short and Simple
Fables are brief and use simple language to ensure the moral is clear.
The fable ended with the line 'Slow and steady wins the race.'
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Scott McCloud:...
And if you go on the diagonal, you get content and form, and then beauty and truth. And it probably applies just as much to music and movies and fine art, which has nothing whatsoever to do with vision at all, or, for that matter, nothing to do with our conference theme of "Inspired by Nature," except to the extent of the fable of the frog
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How to make a profit...
and things could go terribly awry. So I think when it comes to markets, we have a little bit of a similar fable in our heads. We believe that the markets is this magic pot that obeys only one make more money. Only those words said exactly that way
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How the Monkey King...
and the fabled bridge across the river Nai He. Manning the bridge was an old woman who offered worthy souls a bowl of soup. After drinking, the spirits forgot their previous life, and were sent back to the world of the living in a new form.
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Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
wolves has always appeared in folklore fable and even in modern literature and films misunderstanding breeds fear and fear can breed hatred European settlers brought an image of a savage deceitful sinister creature to the new world and
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Meaning, they'll never have their fabled day in court that we talk about in television shows and in movies. And this is the untold part of the story of mass incarceration in America -- how we became the largest jailer in the world.
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My quest to defy gravity...
And a human's first bout with flying was falling accidentally, tripping, or slipping on that fabled banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in. I had found my territory.
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Beeban Kidron: The...
human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world, do we offer communality of experience,
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How do we reason for a...
are inclusive that we have a reasonable chance of hearing using once we get to parallel just because we're human beings so this little you know science fiction story little political fable I just told
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Can you solve the...
Ragnarok. The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future.
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Swimming with Bull...
it's late afternoon and once again he's on the trail of the fabled bull sharks
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Scott McCloud:...
And if you go on the diagonal, you get content and form, and then beauty and truth. And it probably applies just as much to music and movies and fine art, which has nothing whatsoever to do with vision at all, or, for that matter, nothing to do with our conference theme of "Inspired by Nature," except to the extent of the fable of the frog
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How to make a profit...
and things could go terribly awry. So I think when it comes to markets, we have a little bit of a similar fable in our heads. We believe that the markets is this magic pot that obeys only one make more money. Only those words said exactly that way
Video examples
How the Monkey King...
and the fabled bridge across the river Nai He. Manning the bridge was an old woman who offered worthy souls a bowl of soup. After drinking, the spirits forgot their previous life, and were sent back to the world of the living in a new form.
Video examples
Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
wolves has always appeared in folklore fable and even in modern literature and films misunderstanding breeds fear and fear can breed hatred European settlers brought an image of a savage deceitful sinister creature to the new world and
Video examples
Community-powered...
Meaning, they'll never have their fabled day in court that we talk about in television shows and in movies. And this is the untold part of the story of mass incarceration in America -- how we became the largest jailer in the world.
Video examples
My quest to defy gravity...
And a human's first bout with flying was falling accidentally, tripping, or slipping on that fabled banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in. I had found my territory.
Video examples
Beeban Kidron: The...
human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world, do we offer communality of experience,
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
are inclusive that we have a reasonable chance of hearing using once we get to parallel just because we're human beings so this little you know science fiction story little political fable I just told
Video examples
Can you solve the...
Ragnarok. The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future.
Video examples
Swimming with Bull...
it's late afternoon and once again he's on the trail of the fabled bull sharks
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Hypatia
Greek Philosopher
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
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Alfred de Vigny
French Poet
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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Robert Anton Wilson
American Writer
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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Bobcat Goldthwait
American Comedian
The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Yann Martel
Canadian Author
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Hypatia
Greek Philosopher
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Quote examples
Alfred de Vigny
French Poet
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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Robert Anton Wilson
American Writer
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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Bobcat Goldthwait
American Comedian
The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Yann Martel
Canadian Author
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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