Quote by Swami Vivekananda

The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

— Laozi

“It is vain to be the pupil of a sage if you have no brains yourself.”

— Publius Syrus

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end,…

— Zhuangzi

“the intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul.”

— Mark Helprin

“Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.”

— Lao Tzu

“Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“One must be a sage to recognize a sage.”

— Xenophanes

“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the…

— The Bhagavad Gita

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

— Laozi

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”

— Anonymous