Sage Quotes

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.