Able Quote by Edith Wharton

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

— George Meredith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go…

— Will Smith

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

— Marcel Duchamp

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when…

— Francis Bacon

“Opinions differ on the details, but most serious students today recognize that alchemy was, and is, a spiritual pursuit, and that whether or not…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better…

— Paulo Coelho

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird…

— Bill Haywood

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind…

— Terence McKenna

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

— William Shakespeare

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can…

— Henry David Thoreau

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure…

— Ian Hacking

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass