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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

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!

In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.

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

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

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.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the first time in your original freshness. For the first time your real face is encountered. Mind is not there - the divider. Now existence appears as one. Mind has dropped; the barrier between you and existence is no more. Now you can look at existence with no mind. This is how a sage is born. With the mind - the world. With no mind - freedom, MOKSHA, KAIVALYA, NIRVANA. Cessation of the mind is cessation of the world.

One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

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

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

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

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.

Sage?" Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. "You okay?" "I don't know," I said softly. "I just thought of something crazy." "Welcome to my world.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Sage," he said. "What are you wearing?" I sighed and stared down at the dress. "I know. It's red. Don't start. I'm tired of hearing about it." "Funny," he said. "I don't think I could ever get tired of looking at it.

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

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

Speaking of Sonya...I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said." "Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?" "Don't start,Sage," he warned.(p 211)

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein.

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

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side.

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

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

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

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

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

The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.

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

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

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

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.

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.

The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

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

The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.

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