Sage Quotes

Sages are soldiers on the war on ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The enlightened are superior to the learned.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Saints are slaves of good works.Sages are slaves of wisdom.Conquerors are slaves of victory.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The enlightened worry less than others,quarrel less than others,fight less than others,transgress less than others;care more than others,give more than others,and love more than others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Greater than a sage is the one who taught him; God is the teacher, and the wise are all His students.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A sage benefits from his mistakes more than a fool benefits from his triumphs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A fish is a genius in water.An eagle is a genius in air.A fox is a genius on land.A sage is a genius in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One sage is worth more than a thousand warriors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Great sages began as great students.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Light is a masterpiece, but is of little value if you are blind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Afraid of a wooden sword?""Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Ask a sage, he will explain.Ask a fool, he will complain.

Toba Beta

Get me a real chair

Jennifer A. Nielsen

What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them

Adrian was completely deadpan. 'So. You're saying my sister is dressed like a prostitute.

For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.

Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Hey, Frenchie!” Sage poked his head out the door, the sun hitting the brown of his hair to reveal hidden strands of red. “Did you bring any baguettes?”“Why don’t you go season something, Herb?

We barely made it inside her room before I pressed her up against the closed door and kissed her until she couldn't breathe, until I couldn't breathe-but who needed air when you had a silken tongue and warm lips and a body that begged to be licked, pinched, stroked.

At the mention of her name, my heart started beating faster. Dawn. Rusty. My muse.

Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar."My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It's only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Is it true?" Devlin asked me. "You're Prince Jaron?""KING Jaron, actually. News must travel slower amongst the illiterate." I glared at Gregor with every inch of disdain I felt. "Shouldn't you be groveling to me or bowing or something?" Gregor smiled. "I think before I have the chance, you will already be dead.""Ah. So much for all your toasts to my long life.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

I haven't don anything wrong." At least, not for a few hours

Jennifer A. Nielsen

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?

Ogwo David Emenike

She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, “Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

You stole it from the master.""Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?""Can you do it with your left?

Jennifer A. Nielsen

If he put us in dresses, we wouldn't suddenly become women

Jennifer A. Nielsen

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really found something, he would look unconcerned and never turn his head; though the world might condemn him and say he had lost something, he would look serene and pay no heed. The praise and blame of the world are no loss or gain to him.

Zhuangzi

A wise person makes one error,and learns ten lessons.He makes two errors,and learns twenty lessons.He makes three errors,and learns thirty lessons.He makes few errors,and learns countless lessons.

Matshona Dhliwayo

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.

Ogwo David Emenike

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the Absolute Divine state of Unification with the Universe, I realized that the purpose of life is not renunciation of anything, but the realization of the purpose itself.

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much- except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl , or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey,

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

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