Top 36 Wise Sage Quotes
#1. when Billy had turned his gaze upon them. They saw an intense knowing in his eyes beneath the surface pain and ravages of the four-day and -night ordeal, a deepness of sight that would have appeared out of place even in an ancient scholar or a wise sage.
L.E. Thissell
#2. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Thiruvalluvar
#3. I'm not sure I'm cut out for this wise-advice business. Maybe I should wear a fake white beard to convince myself I am a sage.
Cassandra Clare
#4. The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
Emile M. Cioran
#6. What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence - so loving, so pure, so divine - that the sage bows and the wise man weeps at the sound of its soft singing.
Heather K. O'Hara
#7. 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
#8. Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle. "Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets.
Angie Sage
#10. Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
Homer
#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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!
Bill Vaughan
#15. If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#18. 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.]
Jean De La Fontaine
#21. He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.
Sun Tzu
#22. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#23. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. 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
#27. The enlightened worry less than others,
quarrel less than others,
fight less than others,
transgress less than others;
care more than others,
give more than others,
and love more than others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
Thales
#29. Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
Deborah Harkness
#30. Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.
Gautama Buddha
#31. SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
Diana Wynne Jones
#32. He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Criss Jami
#34. It was really difficult to believe you had a right to argue when you were confronted by wise-looking men telling you that you did not.
Sage Blackwood
#35. A wise person makes one error,
and learns ten lessons.
He makes two errors,
and learns twenty lessons.
He makes three errors,
and learns thirty lessons.
He makes few errors,
and learns countless lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. Greater than a sage is the one who taught him; God is the teacher, and the wise are all His students.
Matshona Dhliwayo
