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• The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

  Alison King

  Inspirational, Education, Sides

  "From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side" by Alison King, published in "College Teaching", Volume 41, No. 1 (pp. 30-35), www.jstor.org. Winter 1993.

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• Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Heart, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

  Jude Law

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Lying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Sight, People

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• A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

  Zhuangzi

  Light, Confusion, Doubt

  Zhuangzi (1997). “Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters”, Basic Civitas Books

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• You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

  John H. Vandenberg

  Life, Time, Knowledge

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• It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

  Madame de Stael

  Women, Passion, Fate

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• Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Teaching, Intellectual

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• In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of David Beckham for, in Real Madrid's opinion, "peanuts", and the never-explained departure of Jaap Stam appear to be the rational acts of a sage and far-sighted manger. To offload a player because he could not be reconciled with a role within the squad is a failing of management.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Real

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• The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

  Eknath Easwaran

  God, Eye, Race

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• Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you know." I walked over to Latte and paused. "Say what?" "That I'm okay...for a vampire," he explained. I shook my head, still smiling. "You'll have a hard time getting any Alchemist to admit that. But I can say you're okay for an irreverent party boy with occasional moments of brilliance." "Brilliant? You think I'm brilliant?" He threw his hands skyward. "You hear that, world? Sage says I'm brilliant.

  Richelle Mead

  Thank You, Party, Hard Times

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

  Euripides

  Wise, Hate, Educational

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• Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

  Scott Lynch

  Years, Play, Giving

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.414, Del Rey

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• Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving, Notes, Infant

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.320, Penguin

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• I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit's flames.

  Rod Stryker

  Real, Grateful, Heart

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• Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

  Steven Tyler

  Book, Half, Pages

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• Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy. This is precisely why the ancient sages counseled that we practice yoga. Their point was a very practical one: You are best able to discern which of your many desires should (and should not) be responded to when your mind is calm and tranquil.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

  Philip Roth

  Climbing, Childhood, Tree

  Philip Roth (2007). “Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985”

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• Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

  Tom Robbins

  Artist, Reality, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.108, Bantam

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• If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

  Aldous Huxley

  Learning, Saint, Study

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• It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Humor, Tests, Ancient

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• A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

  Henry Adams

  Years, Two, Bird

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Treasure

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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