Alberic the Wise Quotes

“A wise man’s words are rarely questioned,” he counselled gently.
“Therefore you must be very careful whom you call wise.”
― Norton Juster, Alberic the Wise

“Every time he thought about it he became more convinced that there was nothing that was really true and even less in which to believe. So it was simpler not to care about anything, for in that way he was never disappointed.”
― Norton Juster, Alberic the Wise

“It is much better to look for what I may never find than to find what I do not really want.”
― Norton Juster, Alberic the Wise

“For two days and nights and half another day again he walked – through lonely forests and down along the rushing mountain streams that seemed to know their destination far better than he knew his.”
― Norton Juster, Alberic the Wise

“When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.”
― Norton Juster, Alberic the Wise

“Well, almost nothing, or depending on your generosity of spirit, hardly anything, for he could hitch an ox and plough a furrow straight or thatch a roof or hone his scythe until the edge was bright and sharp or tell by a sniff of the breeze what the day would bring or with a glance when a grape was sweet and ready.”
― Norton Juster, Alberic the Wise