Top 30 7 Sages Quotes
#1. Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#3. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}
Richard Mc Sweeney
#4. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
Elizabeth Charles
#5. The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yangming
#6. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
#7. The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides
#8. The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.
Sally Kempton
#9. Therefore the sages got their knowledge without travelling;
Lao-Tzu
#10. I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.'
Julie Ann Dawson
#11. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
#12. Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that , in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
Dogen
#13. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
Baltasar Gracian
#14. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. 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.
Origen
#16. Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#17. Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
Love will find out the way.
Alfred Noyes
#18. Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
George Eliot
#19. Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
Emily Dickinson
#20. Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.
Richard Henry Stoddard
#21. Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.
Anuj
#22. You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#23. A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
#24. The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.
Ken Wilber
#25. The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.
Michel De Montaigne
#26. The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand but lets the gold go free
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.
Lao-Tzu
#28. Awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her
Eckhart Tolle
#29. Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don't have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills.
Thierry Mugler
#30. There are two types of sages: sages who tell us what we should do and sages who tell us what we shouldn't do.
Eraldo Banovac