Stevie Nicks Quotes

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

No one who lives in error is free.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

I am not what you see and hear.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility

All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf