Sages Quotes

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“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 Maslow

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment... have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

[Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 - Writings 26:484--89]”
― George Washington, Writings

“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“For modern people the pursuit of wisdom sounds like something you'd have to travel to Tibet for. To us, wisdom is mystical and esoteric. It conjures up images of cave-dwelling hermits, saffron-robed monks, and, well, Yoda.”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“Tell the truth, traveller, or you create issues hard to overcome later.”
― Elaina J. Davidson, The Kinfire Tree

“The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is in the solitude that legends are born.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“{Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity}

I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at me. I realised something dreadful about them. They were thrusting an incredible and ugly lie upon the world and the world was making no such resistance as I was disposed to make to this enthronement of cruelty. Either I had to come into this immense luminous coop and submit, or I had to declare the Catholic Church, the core and substance of Christendom with all its divines, sages, saints, and martyrs, with successive thousands of believers, age after age, wrong.

...I found my doubt of his essential integrity, and the shadow of contempt it cast, spreading out from him to the whole Church and religion of which he with his wild spoutings about the agonies of Hell, had become the symbol. I felt ashamed to be sitting there in such a bath of credulity.”
― H.G. Wells

“Never underestimate a situation. Chance is random and is able to undo every preparation.”
― Elaina J. Davidson

“The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis of all later knowledge was laid down. The antediluvian sages were culture-heroes, who brought the arts of civilization to the land. During the time that follows this period, nothing new is invented, the original revelation is only transmitted and unfolded. Oannes and other sages taught all fundations of civilization to antediluvian mankind.”
― Amar Annus

“Incredible are those whom I seek,
Coming and going touches them not,
makes them not weak,

Rare it appears, as they simply float,
where others seem desperate to fly,
Unintelligible is their contentment,
they exist far away from any cry,

How much I wish to be a part of that
ecstasy and imbibe their treasure,
To others happiness is a necessity,
for them even pain brings pleasure.

O men of faith don’t ask me their religion,
for I know it not,
Love is their only expression,
Love is what they always taught.”
― Rabb Jyot, The Freedom of Being Human

“There are two types of sages: sages who tell us what we should do and sages who tell us what we shouldn’t do.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“Figurines of Apkallus were buried in boxes in the foundation deposits in Mesopotamian buildings in order to avert evil ... The term massare, Watchers, is used of these sets. Likewise the Apkallus were said to have taught antediluvian sciences to humanity and so, too, were the Watchers. As one scholar concludes, however: 'The Jewish authors often inverted the Mesopotamian intellectual traditions with the intention of showing the superiority of their own cultural foundations. [Thus] ... the antediluvian sages, the Mesopotamian Apkallus, were demonised as the 'sons of God' and ... appear as the Watchers ... illegitimate teachers of humankind before the flood.”
― Graham Hancock, Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

“The only way to be a master is to know the previous masters!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The ancient sages used divine characters to create mythologies and scriptures to make them more believable. All scriptures are said to be the words of God so that people are convinced about their veracity and believe them.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“The Sage worldview has been suppressed and repressed, creating a crisis of meaning in the world. Only Sages can resolve this crisis since they alone can think big enough to replace God. When God has been killed, it is essential to bring him back, but now in a proper, rational and logical form, one that retains the best aspects of science, but without science’s grotesque materialism and nihilism. Only Sages can raise God from his grave. Only Sages can bring back meaning, purpose and a point to existence”
― Joe Dixon, The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

“Do not fear old age, within dark nights bright stars dwell, for time makes sages”
― Nanette L Avery

“The tragedy lies in the fact that for so long nobody knew what is God. If that were so then there would be no temple, mosque, or church. Only long, long years ago the Vedic sages conceived and realized that this human being becomes God, and therefore, they not only stopped by saying, ’Svetoketo, That art thou’ you are the Knowledge (Brahma), you are the world’, but announced, ‘You are born to become universal’.”
― Sri Jibankrishma or Diamond

“The chamber was possibly the grandest she'd ever entered. The ceilings were impossibly high, held up by slender red pillars with gilded dragons snaking along the sides. On every wall hung tenets from every emperor in the dynasty in the most elegant calligraphy, and statues of China's greatest sages stood in long lines, a reminder of the room's commitment to loyalty, justice, harmony, and peace.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology