Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCQuotes
To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCOnce something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCBid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC