Sage Quotes

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

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.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?

Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

It’s Kahlua, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor.

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.