Top 47 Quotes About Sage Wisdom
#2. It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this day and age.
Ogwo David Emenike
#3. It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
Philippe Quinault
#4. Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.
Abhijit Naskar
#5. In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#6. Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Publilius Syrus
#8. If you venture to be a sage
Let your virtues subside your rage
For deep wisdom you'll be venerated
Let cold veins feel blood cells generated
Munia Khan
#9. If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. You are a god wrapped in flesh; the divinity you've always been seeking is wrapped within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
Idries Shah
#12. Be the person you are, not the one others try to create.
Jonathan Heatt
#13. Don't ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess.
C. JoyBell C.
#15. The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
Baltasar Gracian
#16. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.
The Bhagavad Gita
#18. But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
John Milton
#20. If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. There is wisdom out there that can't be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won't condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
Lance Conrad
#23. Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#25. Knowledge is a sage's best friend;
wisdom is his soul mate.
Virtue is a saint's best friend;
love is his soul mate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
Bill Veeck
#28. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
Baltasar Gracian
#29. One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.
Israel Shenker
#30. But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
Sheldon Vanauken
#31. Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters.
Mark Frost
#32. Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
No need to have wisdom and sage
But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
Do try to act more your age
John Walter Bratton
#33. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#34. I don't want to take away anybody's religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#36. The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
Hafez
#37. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#38. Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of the enormous evils ... But love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed of wisdom.
Sheldon Vanauken
#39. A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Criss Jami
#40. You don't need a long beard to be a sage;
you need to be teachable.
You don't need gray hair to be wise;
you need to be sensible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. Saints are slaves of good works.
Sages are slaves of wisdom.
Conquerors are slaves of victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#43. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#44. When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#46. The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom.
Pierre Hadot
