Sage Quotes · Page 5

The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.

— Laozi

You’re killing me here, Sage!” “I’m not doing anything.” “Exactly my point.

— Richelle Mead

“...wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.”

— Ueda Akinari

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.

— Richelle Mead

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

— Laozi

“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

— Laozi

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he…

— Laozi

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

— Alexander Pope

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness…

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Dahlberg

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Jonathan Swift

Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and…

— Frederick Lenz

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places?…

— Confucius

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

— Stephen King

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources…

— Baltasar Gracian

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence.…

— Mooji

“This game’s principal purpose is to expose your mind to the experience of firsthand evidence of money coming to you, with you…

— Daniel Mangena

Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren’t an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world…

— Richelle Mead

Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate…

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the…

— Albert Einstein

Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle…

— Richelle Mead

Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in…

— James Lee Burke

Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's…

— Judith Sargent Murray

How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up…

— Confucius

So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass…

— Erasmus Darwin

If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different…

— Zhuangzi

In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of…

— Pete Gill

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

— Ramana Maharshi

“The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)”

— Robert Baohm

“You will no longer pick this sage that flavors your whole life.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Tim Ward

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

— Mineko Iwasaki

“I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

— Laozi