Sage Quotes

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. (Publilius Syrus)
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. "The scholars" he answered, "are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science". View quote
Al-Biruni
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage. View quote
Thomas Campbell
Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! View quote
Alexander Pope
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. "The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. View quote
Scott Lynch
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. View quote
George Santayana
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you. (Roald Dahl)
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage. View quote
Eliphas Levi
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity. View quote
Guy Debord
How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage. View quote
Thomas Moore
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this. View quote
Confucius
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, "Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact." (Confucius)
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi. View quote
Konrad Lorenz
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! View quote
Robert Burns
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man. View quote
Karl Marx
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. View quote
Frank Waters