Sage Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

  Ernest Bramah

  Doors, Should Have, Profound

  Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”

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• Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.

  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

  Prayer, Heart, Play

  Foreword to "Following the Synagogue Service" by Jeffrey Cohen, Gnesia Publications, (p. ix), 1997.

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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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• 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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• 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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• All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

  Anton Chekhov

  Impunity

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dust, Wind, Wyoming

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Believe, Would Be

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 176, 1647.

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• How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Loneliness, Heart, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.185

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• When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

  George Boas

  Past, Thinking, Fool

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