J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
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It is not possible to heal people and collect money. That gift is not for sale. When it is time to heal, it is time to give what God has given us.
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I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the shows and keep buying the records and we keep having success on country radio.
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Love lasteth long as the money endureth.
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They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.