“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”
Source: Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
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Eliphas Levi22
French writer 1810–1875Related quotes
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in Once Upon a Time (TV series) in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad Hatter appears. – Ref: Internet Movie Database (IMDb), quotes from Once upon a Time, "Hat Trick" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2104520/quotes. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”
Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
“If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.”
Lev Grossman book The Magician's Land
Source: The Magician's Land
Hilda Lewis (1896–1974) British writer
Source: The Ship that Flew (1939), Ch. 1 : The Magic Begins
“The Science you don't know looks like magic.”
Christopher Moore book Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Kona, in Ch. 30
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003)
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky
Variant: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Source: A Hat Full of Sky