844 Quotes About Sage

Prophets foretell the future;sages prepare for it.

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

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

Great sages began as great students.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

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.

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 never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.