Sage Quotes - Page 9

• I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the leading edge of the self-transcending drive that always goes beyond what went before. I think they embody the very drive of the Kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness. I think they are riding the edge of a light beam toward a rendezvous with God.

  Ken Wilber

  Thinking, Self, Light

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

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• People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

  Stevie Smith

  Past, People, Age

  'The Past' (1957)

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

  Laozi

  Strive, Strife

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• You’re killing me here, Sage!” “I’m not doing anything.” “Exactly my point.

  Richelle Mead

  Killing

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.75, Penguin

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• The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ignorance, People, Anxiety

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• The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

  Zhuangzi

  Abiding, Portal, Existence

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• The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

  Laozi

  Greatness, Doe, Achieve

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Wise, Character, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

  Ameen Rihani

  War, Golf, Play

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• Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

  Laozi

  Dog, Heaven, Earth

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• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

  Laozi

  Helping Others, Generosity, Doe

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• 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

  Wise, Secret, Use

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• A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, House, Fool

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Words have divided man from woman,
  one from another, this from that,
  until only sages know how to put things together.
  Without words, without even understanding,
  lovers find each other.
  The moment of finding is always a surprise,
  like meeting an old friend never before known.

  Laozi

  Men, Understanding, Old Friends

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• Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Tomorrow, Ifs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1195, Manonmani Publishers

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• From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

  Yehuda Levi

  Tree, Fruit, Prohibition

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• You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Beautiful, Country, Flower

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Honey, Bees

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• Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Self, Realization

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• Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Hero, Friendly, Crowds

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• The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Despair, New Life

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• The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Ignorant, Scientist

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• Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

  James H. Billington

  Dream, Special, Legends

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• The jester is brother to the sage.

  Arthur Koestler

  Brother, Jester

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