Eliphas Levi Quotes

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

Eliphas Levi

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Men
  • American
  • Perfect

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Magic

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• Donald Trump did not appear by magic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Magic
  • Trump
  • Appear

• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Together

• I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Practice
  • Better

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Alone
  • Football
  • Fighting

• I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Practice

• Th’ dead ar-re always pop’lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an’ refuse to help his fam’ly, all in wan night.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Help
  • Night
  • Society

• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  

  John Wesley
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Art
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Sage