Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are 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. - Willard Van Orman Quine
Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages. - Matshona Dhliwayo
What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools? - Ogwo David Emenike
You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee". - Fakeer Ishavardas
Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses. - Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. - William Wordsworth
If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity. - T.S. Eliot
The things that are essential to salvation are so exceedingly simple that no child need sit down in despair of understanding the things which make for his peace. Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people. True it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools - rassool jibraeel snyman
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. - Abraham H. Maslow
God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. - Edward Gibbon
As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude. - Ogwo David Emenike
Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself. Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages. - Dharlene Marie Fahl
The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink. - Amit Abraham
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. - Gordon Atkinson
Words like IDIOT & MAD are forever sacrosanct as history shows that they have always been used against sages & saints by stupids and sycophants in this satanic & selfish world. - Anuj Somany
To learn how to swim, observe fish.To learn how to hunt, observe lions.To learn how to work, observe bees.To learn how to live, observe sages. - Matshona Dhliwayo