Sage Quotes

347 Sage quotes by 203 unique authors

A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone. — Laozi
I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring… — Swami Vivekananda
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot… — Zhuangzi
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed… — Calvin Coolidge
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. — Bill Veeck
You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit.… — Jodi Picoult
Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in… — Zhuangzi
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. — Xunzi
By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to… — Martin Filler
If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to… — Alberto Villoldo
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal… — Swami Vivekananda
The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner… — Laozi
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if… — Swami Vivekananda
Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not… — Ali Akbar Khan
Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the… — Marie Forleo
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for… — H. L. Mencken
What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked.… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich… — Elizabeth Moon
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread.… — Harold S. Kushner
I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses it has incredible healing powers.… — Hilary Duff
In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older.… — Willa Cather
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from… — Fisher Ames
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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