Wizards Quotes

• The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

  Terry Goodkind

  Motivation, Stupid, Believe

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• A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

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• Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

  Jim Butcher

  Mess

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.221, Penguin

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• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Anger

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

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• When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

  Tamora Pierce

  Doubt, When In Doubt, Beka Cooper

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• In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

  Billy Joel

  Fun, Alchemist, Way

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• I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sticks, Baboons

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• There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, World, Reason Why

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

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• ...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, People, Mind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Would Be, Purpose

  "Eric". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, People, Use

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• To the wizard death is merely a belief.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Belief

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.44, Random House

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• What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

  Barbara Hambly

  Temptation, Hypothesis, Overwhelming

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• But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Balance, Needs

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

  Brian Selznick

  Mermaid, Dreamer, Tonight

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• Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Noses, Poke

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• Wizards First Rule: People are Stupid

  Terry Goodkind

  Stupid, People, Firsts

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• Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Children, Past, Dragons

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• Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hats

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

  Terry Goodkind

  Self, Truth Is, Treason

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• The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

  J. K. Rowling

  Muggles, Misfits, Outcast

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• Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Once Upon A Time

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• Wizards are a secretive lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Secretive

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Food, Years

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