Wisdom Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.”

“Still round the corner there may wait”

“After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.”

“A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.”

“The world was fair, the mountains tall”

““Journey’s end”

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.”

“In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.”

“Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”

“Some times humanity lacks vision, most times understanding.”

“I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.”

“to be a symbol of ‘grown-upedness’ is by no means synonymous of being wise. Usually the contrary. The wise never really grow up.”