Walking Sticks quotes

Walking Sticks

17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

17 quotes
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

"Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick."

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher

"When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind."

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