The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels… — Confucius Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so,… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in sage. Chan calls me his Little White Witch. Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity,… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Pleased to meet you." Sage said, offering his hand. "The pleasure is all mine," Rayna Purred. "Unless ofcourse, it's all Clea's which… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight.… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You’re a solid person, Sage. You’re easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that… — Saadi Copy Share Image
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
