Alchemist Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

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

— William H. Gass

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

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during…

— Alan Moore

“While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot…

— Agona Apell

Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some…

— Rick Wilson

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value.”

— Paulo Coelho

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold…

— Benjamin Franklin

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

— Moliere

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

— Rumi

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

— Swami Vivekananda

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

— Democritus