Sages Quotes

104 Sages quotes by 93 unique authors

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
[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
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of… — Anuj
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… — Herman Melville
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. — Mason Cooley
Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to… — Laozi
Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative… — Mata Amritanandamayi
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the… — Bodhidharma
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind… — Bodhidharma
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied… — Max Beerbohm
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker… — John Greenleaf Whittier
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known? — Emily Dickinson
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible… — William Cowper
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. — Maimonides
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell

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