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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known? -- Emily Dickinson
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. -- Gamaliel
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. -- Maimonides
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. -- Swami Brahmananda
Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. -- Laozi
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust. -- Omar Khayyam
I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.' -- Julie Ann Dawson
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
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. -- Mason Cooley
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. -- Lord Byron
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. -- Edward Gibbon
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva. -- Meir Soloveichik
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. -- Tibor Fischer
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. -- John Heywood
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. -- William Wordsworth
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. -- William Cowper
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. -- Elizabeth Moon
A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers. -- Peter Dinklage
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips. -- Origen
Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don't have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills. -- Thierry Mugler
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. -- John Adams
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. -- Tim Jackson
Years do not make sages; they only make old men. -- Sophie Swetchine
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names. -- Joseph Campbell
The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. -- Mineko Iwasaki
People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world. -- Wu Wei
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. -- George Eliot
Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. -- Baltasar Gracian
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy? -- Ming-Dao Deng
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. -- Susan Sontag
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. -- Joseph Glanvill
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. -- Jean Ingelow
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. -- Steven Tyler
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. -- Nichiren
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. -- Laura Bush
The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free. -- Deepak Chopra
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior... -- James Thayer
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. -- Jonathan Swift
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. -- Krishnananda Saraswati
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. -- Tom Robbins
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. -- Anton Chekhov
There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. -- Susan Sontag
Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally. -- Anuj
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. -- Joseph Conrad
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
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
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
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place." -- William Cowper
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning. -- Dante Alighieri
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages. -- Max Beerbohm
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. -- Saadi
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers. -- Elizabeth Charles
Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us. -- Marie Forleo
Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored. -- Mooji
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong. -- Swami Vivekananda
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. -- Abraham Maslow
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages! -- W.S. Gilbert
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise. -- Okakura Kakuzo
Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel. -- Stephen King

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