Mote may be:
- Mote (food), various types of cooked grains consumed in South America
- Mote con huesillo, a non alcoholic drink from Chile
- Mote, a song by Sonic Youth from their 1990 album Goo (album)
- Mote EP, a recording by The Faint
- The Mote and the Beam, a parable
- The Mote in God's Eye, a science fiction novel
- Motes, small, battery-operated sensor nodes operating as part of a wireless sensor network
- A fairy character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Famous quotes containing the word mote:
“Alle fresh the level pasture lay,
And not a shadowe mote by seene,
Save where full fyve good miles away
The steeple towered from out the greene,”
—Jean Ingelow (1820–1897)
“Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound,
Of all that mote delight a daintie eare,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:3.
From the Sermon on the Mount.