Sage Quotes

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.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

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

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

What is it with you and girls’ bathrooms?

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

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

For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

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.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.

It's the kind of sage wisdom coming from a guy who was 25 at the time, but already had 20 years of experience. Kurt Russell is a wonderful actor and a great guy.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!