Gnomic Quotes & Sayings

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil. — John Ciardi

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances — Diana Wynne Jones

Byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does. — Gail Carson Levine

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase. — Samuel