Quotes About Sage

Rousseau (I'll note with your permission) Could not conceive how solemn Grimm Dared clean his nails in front of him, The madcap sage and rhetorician. Champion of rights and liberty, In this case judged wrong-headedly. One still can be a man of action And mind the beauty of one's nails: Why fight the age's predilection? Custom's a despot and prevails.

whereby tiny chips were implanted in their brains, allowing them to communicate telepathically with each other and with Sage.

the mind of the common person is aroused by gain, while that of a sage awakens to justice

Fingers now scented with sage and rosemary, a kneeling gardener is lost in savory memories.

Living in a sweet, fluid state of ignorance about all things and about oneself is the only way of life guaranteed to suit and bring comfort to the sage.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

The sage's ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] "love" or "hate." Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.

Do not find any duality. The wise do not see "this" and "that," they do not perceive the "relative". Completely give up distinctions—the "world" of the relative is transcended by the wise. Free from the pairs of opposites (such as better-worse), the sage sees the same everywhere—his perception is nondual. Duality is the root of misery.

It may be true that every enlightened sage is insane, but it does not necessarily follow that every insane person is an enlightened sage!

Ah! – esclamò il Gatto ascoltando. – Questa Donna è molto saggia; ma non saggia come me.

Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies.

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

The quoted are equated with being the leaders of an age, as if there sits not in silence an even wiser sage.

The sage's point was that life was uncertain and no one should be counted happy till the day of his death.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

His voice sounded vaguely grandfather like, as if his brain were crowded with knowledge!

As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.

A sage since old days in every generation is always considered a mad person by the foolish people who have had either an empty or a materialistic head over their shoulders in this selfish world.

Fools rejoice the talk of stupids only and, no surprise, to them a sage is only a mad or an idiot in this inhuman world.

Stupids categorize the proverbs into positive and negative thoughts, but the sage comprehends that the proverbs are the guiding lights to show us the right path of life.

The difference between a Thought and a Proverb is that anything said by anyone is a Thought, which even upon not being intellectually worthy can be foolishly or selfishly admired by many people especially when the speaker is financially wealthy; but if a person's quote has got wisdom a lot for the whole world and endorsed or sought by sage minds only, then it becomes a Proverb.

The word 'I' symbolizes own EGO as sage says, 'YOU' sounds ADVICE directed towards others and 'WE' signifies ACTION as it involves everyone alike; A true leader defines and differentiates oneself from others by often constructive ACTION than ADVICE and the same reflects in one's language.

Cultivating a strong group of personal directors takes time and commitment. For me, it took more than 10 years to find a diverse group that could give me sage advice when I needed it most.