Sage Quotes

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Show
  • Sage
  • Shines

• As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Water
  • Sage
  • Lotus

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Illness
  • Sees
  • Sage

• To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Health
  • Secret

• The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Lose
  • Fail
  • Sage

• 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
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Sage

• Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Difficult
  • Achieved
  • Sage

• But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

  

  John Milton
  • Melancholy
  • Goddess
  • Divinest

• The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Credit
  • Sage
  • Display

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sees
  • Sage
  • Belly

• A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • House
  • Fool

• The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Attention
  • Merit
  • Sage

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Honor
  • Demands
  • Sage

• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Quack

• The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sage
  • Honors
  • Settlement

• The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sage
  • Extravagance
  • Avoids

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Accomplish
  • Sage
  • Strives

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Accomplish
  • Strive
  • Sage

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sage
  • Pierce
  • Offend

• The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Attempt
  • Sage
  • Achieves

• One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Child
  • Apologize
  • Sage

• When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Use
  • Sage
  • Uncarved

• Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Injury
  • Wishing

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Virtue
  • Sage

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