Alchemist Quote by Paulo Coelho

“They were looking only for gold,"his companion answered. "They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without wanting actually to live out the…

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Like an alchemist, he had taken something dark and painful, and he'd transmuted it into gold. In doing so, he'd created a new reality…

— Eli Easton

“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

“By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

— William Shakespeare

“Sometimes the gold is not found by those who actively dig for it, but by the lucky few who walk by aimlessly.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— William H. Gass

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

“A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher's stone (much more easily discovered than the object…

— Charles Dickens

“You'll have a hard time getting any Alchemist to admit that. But I can say you're okay for an irreverent party boy with occasional…

— Richelle Mead