Sage famous quotes

Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’
-- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

#Doors #Ignorant #Sage

If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.
-- Alberto Villoldo

#Dream #Our World #Sage

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Learning #Saint #Sage

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sage #Guests #Welcome

From sage on the stage to guide on the side.
-- Alison King

#Inspirational #Education #Sage

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

#Sage #Examination #Tests

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Humor #Sage #Tests

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Sage

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Solitude #Sage #Beast

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
-- Beryl Markham

#Knights #Bored #Sage

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
-- Bill Veeck

#Wisdom #Wrinkles #Sage

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
-- Bodhidharma

#Past #Worry #Sage

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
-- Ed Koch

#Teaching #Different #Sage

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Men #Thinking #Sage

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
-- Edward Dahlberg

#Character #Smell #Sage

In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.
-- Edward Hirsch

#Keys #Aztec #Sage

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
-- Eliphas Levi

#Practice #Magic #Sage

When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
-- Ernest Bramah

#Doors #Profound #Sage

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
-- Frank Waters

#Ocean #Desert #Sage

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
-- Gamaliel

#Men #Silence #Sage

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
-- George Boas

#Past #Thinking #Sage

The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.
-- Guy Debord

#Gossip #Boredom #Sage

One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Work #Years #Sage

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Children #Fundamentals #Sage

Pleased to meet you." Sage said, offering his hand. "The pleasure is all mine," Rayna Purred. "Unless ofcourse, it's all Clea's which is even better." Sage smiled and might have even blushed a bit, which was highly entertaining.
-- Hilary Duff

#Offering #Hands #Sage

Who are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105
-- Hilary Duff

#Who I Am #Sage

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond
-- Hilary Duff

#Sage #Body #Made

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
-- Homer

#Wise #Wine #Sage

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
-- James Anthony Froude

#Selfish #Sage #Fool

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
-- Jason Chaffetz

#Doe #Sage #Protection

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
-- Jean Ingelow

#Women #Sage #Poet

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Fall #Sage #Morality

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Sage #Opinion

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.
-- Laura Bush

#Age #Library #Sage

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
-- Lord Byron

#Wisdom #Intelligence #Sage

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Taught #Sage #Lessons

Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.
-- Marie Forleo

#Heart #Sage #World

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Wisdom #Intelligence #Sage

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

#Sage #Hearing #Idiot

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.
-- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#Past #Age #Sage

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.
-- Mineko Iwasaki

#Sage #Mist #Live By

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
-- Ming-Dao Deng

#Life #Sage #Doe

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
-- Nichiren

#Adversity #Sage #Hardship

Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.
-- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

#Brother #Sage #Genius

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
-- Origen

#Believe #Sage #Mouths

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
-- Philippe Quinault

#Wise #Wisdom #Sage

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom.
-- Pierre Hadot

#Mean #Sage #Way

Sage is cleansing and sacred.
-- Pink

#Cleansing #Sage #Sacred

I knew a Sage once. Trashy little thing.
-- Rebecca

#Littles #Sage #Little Things

Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.
-- Richelle Mead

#Use #Sage #Weakness

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Rude #Good Man #Sage

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
-- Susan Sontag

#Thinking #Sage #Paraphrase

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

#Peace #Teaching #Sage

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
-- Tim Ward

#Buddhist #Silence #Sage

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Sheep #Heaven #Sage

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
-- Zhuangzi

#Doubt #Sage #Torches

The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
-- Zhuangzi

#Moon #Years #Sage

The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.
-- Lie Yukou

#Understanding #Taoism #Sage

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Tree #Sage #Fruit

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."
-- Alison King

#Inspirational #Education #Sage

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.
-- Charles Mackay

#Sage #World #May

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.
-- James Thayer

#Sage #Behavior #China

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
-- Krishnananda Saraswati

#Saint #Up To You #Sage