Sage Quotes

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.

~ Thiruvalluvar

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

~ Criss Jami

One is not born wise, one becomes it.

~ Matthieu Ricard

I believe that for every illness or ailment known to man, that God has a plant out here that will heal it. We just need to keep discovering the properties for natural healing.

~ Vannoy Gentles Fite

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

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

~ Jim Corbett

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

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

~ Ogwo David Emenike

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

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 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

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

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

~ Julie Kagawa

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

~ Richelle Mead

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

~ Richelle Mead

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?

~ Nalini Singh

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.

~ Karina Halle

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

~ Karina Halle

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