Sage Quotes

Sage Quote of the day

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

The jester is brother to the sage.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

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.

A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

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

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

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