Sage Quotes - Page 11

• A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dream, Simple, Night

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• We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

  Zhuangzi

  Joy, Body, Chance

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• 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

  Reality, Love Is, Men

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• To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Sick

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

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• Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Brother, Self

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• He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe, Profit, Despicable

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 629, 1856.

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• The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Mankind

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.44, 谷月社

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• If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

  Zhuangzi

  Sheep, Likes And Dislikes, Bird

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Water, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Mean, Way, Knowing Oneself

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 90), 2001.

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• Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of experience with." I think he mean photosynthesis, but I didn't correct him. "Use my knowledge. Don't let it go to waste.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Thinking, Let It Go

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• He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.” There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?

  Richelle Mead

  Two, Silence, Waiting

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.198, Penguin

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• Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

  Melissa Bank

  Hate, Voice, Advice

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• Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Men, Practice, Perfect

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• Speaking of Sonya...I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said." "Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?" "Don't start,Sage," he warned.(p 211)

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Attention, Sonya

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• What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Gentleman, Delicacy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.113, Рипол Классик

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• What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Doors, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Brahman, Pure

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• Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being

  Sima Qian

  Spring, Military, War

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• When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

  George Boas

  Past, Thinking, Fool

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• Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

  Richelle Mead

  Long, Laughed

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.219, Penguin

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• Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Might, Able

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.989, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Art, Philosophy, Past

  "Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia". Book by Baltasar Gracián, § 1, 1647.

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• Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dust, Two, Atheism

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