Sages Quotes
104 Sages quotes by 93 unique authors
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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
— George Eliot
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Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
— Tom Robbins
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
— Susan Sontag
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
— Steven Tyler
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not…
— William Ellery Channing
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Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.
— Mineko Iwasaki
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Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the…
— Khalil Gibran
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Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in…
— Robert Browning
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Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know…
— Mitch Albom
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big…
— E E Cummings
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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 "they"…
— Stephen King
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s…
— Ann Voskamp
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Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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Truth is one, though the sages know it as many . God is one, though different religions approach Him differently Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah,…
— Amish Tripathi
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability…
— Wang Yangming
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted.…
— Laozi
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A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
— Tibor Fischer
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Adore Him(GOD), placing a garland of tears around His neck; washing His feet with tears, springing from joy at the contemplation of His Love! That…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not,…
— William Ellery Channing
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also…
— Blaise Pascal
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not…
— William Ellery Channing
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