Sage Quotes - Page 12

• The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Hypnosis, Genius

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2010

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• Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Mean, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy and other Addresses”

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• Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Acting, Perceive

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• He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Want, Dare

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• The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Doe, Failing

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• Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

  Laozi

  Sight, Taoism, Carts

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• The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Taoism, Doe

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• The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Difficult, Regard

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• The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Way

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• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Extravagance, Excess

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• The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Book, Angel

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• He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines.

  Laozi

  Shining, Taoism, Doe

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• The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Doe, Strive

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• The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

  Laozi

  Clothes, Taoism, Jade

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• The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

  Laozi

  Dwelling, Taoism, Doe

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• O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
  So have all sages said, all poets sung.

  Jean Ingelow

  Women, Poet, Said

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.84

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• People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

  Laozi

  Children, Eye, Compassion

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• The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Honor, Taoism

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• The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Desire

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• He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue

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• What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Difficult

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• When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Use, Splits

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• The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Filling, Belly

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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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