All my days have
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. Gamaliel
Sage
My character is different
My character is different from all of the Elves you’ve met before, in that she’s really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I’ve really focused on that in my performance. I’m trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years. Evangeline Lilly
Learned we may be
Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself] Euripides
When an alluring woman
When an alluring woman comes in at the door, warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, discretion may be found up the chimney. It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly. Ernest Bramah
So erst the Sage
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow’s sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in … Read more
Love is done when
Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known? Emily Dickinson
The wise man, the
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Emile M. Cioran
Other people, including me,
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. Elizabeth Moon
The Yogic sages say
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I’m a failure I’m lonely … Read more
To know how to
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers. Elizabeth Charles