"The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and……" — Algernon Blackwood

"The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray."

— Algernon Blackwood

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16 Quotes by Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever…
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are…
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling…
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and…
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has…
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most…
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they…
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own…
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more…

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in… — John O. Brennan
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. — Willie Aames
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. — Dante Alighieri
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall… — Laozi
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I… — Alistair Cooke
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better… — Thomas Jefferson
I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could… — Henry David Thoreau
Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach… — Confucius
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance… — Andre Weil
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close… — Albert Einstein
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. — Jean Rostand

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