Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom... — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy? — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
“Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“Tell the truth, traveller, or you create issues hard to overcome later.” — Elaina J. Davidson Copy Share Image
“Sages thought and taught, But men do what they want; Love, wisdom and tolerance won’t work at them, For they are great… — Vinod Varghese Antony Copy Share Image
“For modern people the pursuit of wisdom sounds like something you'd have to travel to Tibet for. To us, wisdom is mystical… — J. Mark Bertrand Copy Share Image
“Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“The sages of the world have only the right to tell us that they have analysed their minds and have found these… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Tangled grasses lie matted with death, but generals keep at it. And for what? Isn't it clear that weapons are the tools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
“The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree They rattle reason out through many… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The spiritual teachers universally recognized as “great” did not give commandments nor did they impose their way of life on others. They… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“The chamber was possibly the grandest she'd ever entered. The ceilings were impossibly high, held up by slender red pillars with gilded… — Elizabeth Lim Copy Share Image
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel Copy Share Image
“The least among you [the Sages] has the capacity to revive the dead (Avodah Zarah 10b)” — Aharon Feldman Copy Share Image
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate a situation. Chance is random and is able to undo every preparation.” — Elaina J. Davidson Copy Share Image
“People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.” — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
“Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies… — Wang Yangming Copy Share Image
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image