Sages Quotes
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One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
— Joseph Conrad
The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.
— Lao-Tzu
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
— Tom Robbins
Prophets foretell the future;
sages prepare for it. — Matshona Dhliwayo
sages prepare for it. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
— Meir Soloveichik
Ordinary people knock on doors,
warriors break them down,
but sages enter through the window. — Matshona Dhliwayo
warriors break them down,
but sages enter through the window. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
— Emily Dickinson
Never underestimate a situation. Chance is random and is able to undo every preparation.
— Elaina J. Davidson
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
— Dante Alighieri
Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!
— Marcia Casar Friedman
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
— Max Beerbohm
Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
Tell the truth, traveller, or you create issues hard to overcome later.
— Elaina J. Davidson
Sages tell us that the Torah tells us that until the age of thirteen, all of boy's sins are ascribed to his father.
— Shalom Auslander
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.
— George Gordon Byron
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
— Jonathan Swift
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth
Know your own mind and you will be as wise as the sages.
— Napoleon Hill
All of the great writers and sages we are so quick to quote have simply given their interpretation of what it means to be human.
— Chris Matakas
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
— Maimonides
There are two types of sages: sages who tell us what we should do and sages who tell us what we shouldn't do.
— Eraldo Banovac
The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.
— Idries Shah
Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
— Baltasar Gracian
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
— Sophie Swetchine
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages
and sages
and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. — Laura Bush
and sages
and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. — Laura Bush
What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?
— Ogwo David Emenike
The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.
— Deepak Chopra
As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
— Tibor Fischer
Great sages began as great students.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
— Anton Chekhov
Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father} — Richard Mc Sweeney
{Source: A Green Desert Father} — Richard Mc Sweeney
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
— William Cowper
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— Edward Gibbon
Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
— Swami Brahmananda
The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.
— Robert Wright
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
— Mason Cooley
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
— Nichiren
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
— John Heywood
The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.
— Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
— Swami Vivekananda
Heaven and earth are not humanistic - they regard myriad beings as straw dogs; sages are not humanistic - they regard people as straw dogs,
— Sun Tzu
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.
— Mineko Iwasaki
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
— Krishnananda Saraswati
sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature.
— R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.
— Michel De Montaigne
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself.
Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages. — Dharlene Marie Fahl
Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages. — Dharlene Marie Fahl
Saints are slaves of good works.
Sages are slaves of wisdom.
Conquerors are slaves of victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Sages are slaves of wisdom.
Conquerors are slaves of victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
— Gamaliel
Who does not wish to have noble ancestors?
Who does not wish to have noble descendants?
Even fools boast that their ancestors were sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Who does not wish to have noble descendants?
Even fools boast that their ancestors were sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
First strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.
— Robin S. Sharma