Sages Quotes

104 Sages quotes by 93 unique authors

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. — Steven Tyler
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
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
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
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
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. — Mineko Iwasaki
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. — Tibor Fischer
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
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
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
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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