There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
Other Quotes by "H. Rider Haggard"
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
Tags: wisdom, stupidity, mankind, learning, knowledge, intelligence, humanity, futility, foolishness, arrogance
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?
Tags: time, results, result, opposites, long-term, intention, good-and-evil, free-will, fate, crime, circumstance, choice, change, chance, chain-of-events, cause-and-effect, action
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