Sage Quotes - Page 15

• The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fate, Law, Heaven

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wings, Eagles, Imagination

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1853). “Proverbial Philosophy by Martin F. Tupper”, p.142

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• So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Brother, Hero, Eye

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• Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, Remember You

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• Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.

  Sue Thoele

  Views, Simplicity, Atmosphere

  Sue Patton Thoele (1998). “Freedoms After 50”, p.133, Conari Press

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• 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

  Sight, Views, Black

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 12

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• In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, People, Liberty

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Enlightened, Obsolete

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• It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

  Frances Wright

  Dream, Country, Government

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.362

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• If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
  You may get a bland smile from these sages;
  But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
  Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cracks, Wages, Crowns

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wise, Men, Greek

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

  Ayn Rand

  Crush, Strong, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Saint, Up To You, Alive

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• Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

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• Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

  Saadi

  Dog, Grateful, Men

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.166, Innovations and Information

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• I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Class, Despair

  John Stuart Mill (1873). “Autobiography”, p.290

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• Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Years, Age

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• Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

  Walter Scott

  Should Have, Soldier, Abuse

  Sir Walter Scott (1832). “Talisman”, p.300

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• 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

  Wise, Thinking, Folly

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• Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

  Anuj

  Age, Madness, Forbidden

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• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

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• 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

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Dad, Character

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ocean, Thinking, Vanity

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• How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Perfect

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.286

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