The Sages promise us that anyone who studies the Torah…

“The least among you [the Sages] has the capacity to revive the dead (Avodah Zarah 10b)”

— Aharon Feldman

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and…

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Gamaliel

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

— Susan Sontag

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his…

— Wang Yangming

“People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.”

— Wu Wei

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends…

— James H. Billington

“For the Stoics, however, the near impossibility of becoming a sage is not a problem. They talk about sages primarily so they will have…

— William B. Irvine

“few dozen" wise, unselfish sages,”

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its…

— George Washington

Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as…

— Stephen King

“Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them,…

— Dogen

“The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social…

— Abhijit Naskar

“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”

— Ogwo David Emenike