Sage Quotes - Page 19

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  Xunzi

  Nature, Kings, Men

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• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Creative, Misunderstood

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• Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Stars, Struggle, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2252, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Real, Self, Joy

  George Ruckert, Ali Akbar Khan (1998). “The Classical Music of North India: The first years study”, Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd

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• Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

  Marie Forleo

  Heart, World, Helping

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• Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Sheep, Heaven

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• If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Our World, Way

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Oct 04, 2013

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• To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Paraphrase

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.118, Macmillan

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