Great Sages Quotes

#1. All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Anton Chekhov

#2. None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior ...

James Thayer

#3. Great sages began as great students.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.

Zicheng Hong

#5. I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

Angela Carter

#6. All of the great writers and sages we are so quick to quote have simply given their interpretation of what it means to be human.

Chris Matakas

#7. So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

Bill Murray

#9. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#10. Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. The stereotypical Pacific Northwest weather hadn't inspired me to bring an umbrella; the precipitation wasn't heavy enough to dampen my clothing. Besides, there was no quicker way to say "I'm not from around here" than to carry an umbrella.

Michael W. Anderson

#12. Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

Harry Lloyd

#13. Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#14. I like to do all things. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do a bunch of them at the same time.

Maurissa Tancharoen

#15. Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Rex Stout

#16. I decided, as I succumbed to sleep, that men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons.

Penny Reid

#17. Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?

Sarah Palin

#18. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

Eknath Easwaran

#19. 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

#20. I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

Michael Nyman

#21. We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Al Michaels

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

Krishnananda Saraswati