Top 340 Sage Quotes & Sayings

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses it has incredible healing powers. Ben's voice rang out in my head. I remembered he said that earlier, about...the Elixir of Life.The crackpot, completely bogus, absolutely insane Elixir of Life.Did it actually exist? Had Sage had some? Enough to keep him alive, young, and speed-healing for the last five hundred years?And if so, had he used that time to find one woman, again and again in different incarnations, to love her...or destroy her?

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

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

Whether it be a sage or a king, all have been borne by women.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.

The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

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.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

The jester is brother to the sage.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

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

The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

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

It’s Kahlua, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

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

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my sake. A for effort.

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

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

A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.

Pleased to meet you." Sage said, offering his hand. "The pleasure is all mine," Rayna Purred. "Unless ofcourse, it's all Clea's which is even better." Sage smiled and might have even blushed a bit, which was highly entertaining.

I am a big believer in sage. Chan calls me his Little White Witch. Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

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

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

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.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

I knew a Sage once. Trashy little thing.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear.

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

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.