The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change…

As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages…

— Eknath Easwaran

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in…

— Socrates

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

— Emily Dickinson

“A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes suffering.” The”

— Janet Evanovich

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

— Anonymous

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

— Anonymous

I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the…

— Ken Wilber

“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

— Ogwo David Emenike