Top Sage Quotes Collection

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Image of Mineko Iwasaki
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.
- Mineko Iwasaki
Collection: Sage
Image of Joseph Glanvill
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.
- Joseph Glanvill
Collection: Sage
Image of James Thayer
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.
- James Thayer
Collection: Sage
Image of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Collection: Sage
Image of Rebecca
I knew a Sage once. Trashy little thing.
- Rebecca
Collection: Sage
Image of Charles Mackay
Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.
- Charles Mackay
Collection: Sage
Image of Max Beerbohm
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
- Max Beerbohm
Collection: Sage
Image of Laozi
He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.
- Laozi
Collection: Sage
Image of Laozi
The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.
- Laozi
Collection: Sage
Image of Alexander Pope
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Sage
Image of Margaret Sanger
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
- Margaret Sanger
Collection: Sage
Image of Anton Chekhov
All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.
- Anton Chekhov
Collection: Sage
Image of Mason Cooley
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Sage
Image of Hilary Duff
Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond
- Hilary Duff
Collection: Sage
Image of Thomas Hardy
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
- Thomas Hardy
Collection: Sage
Image of Georg C. Lichtenberg
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Collection: Sage
Image of Richelle Mead
You’re killing me here, Sage!” “I’m not doing anything.” “Exactly my point.
- Richelle Mead
Collection: Sage
Image of Ramana Maharshi
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.
- Ramana Maharshi
Collection: Sage
Image of Richelle Mead
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.
- Richelle Mead
Collection: Sage