Top 30 Sage Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

I alternate between a few scents. I love ‘Oribe Cote d’Azur Eau de Parfum’ and both the ‘Wild Bluebell’ and ‘Wood Sage & Sea Salt Colognes’ by Jo Malone.

I think I’m obsessed with food. Maybe that’s why I’m making the transition to organic products – they just feel yummy. I like vanilla scents. I like mint. I like sage. I like the idea of smelling blackberries every time I blink. It’s so good.

I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I’ve always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I – I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Cultivating a strong group of personal directors takes time and commitment. For me, it took more than 10 years to find a diverse group that could give me sage advice when I needed it most.

‘Keep your head down at school.’ Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

It’s unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it’s unlikely that he or she will be the same person who’s pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.

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

To detoxify my whole body, I’m a massive fan of dumping an entire wad of Epsom salts into the bath with a couple of drops of lavender or sage oil.

I am being completely serious when I state this: Sage Northcutt might just be the nicest human being I have ever met in my life. He is sweet as can be. He doesn’t have an evil bone in his body.

The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all of which have remained staples of the British kitchen.

Whether it be a sage or a king, all have been borne by women.

I knew what the story behind ‘Dreams’ was. It was about Stevie Knicks’ relationship. But when I sing it, it’s about sharing some sage advice with somebody.

In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I’ve made over the years, and because I’m very into smells, I have some burned sage on my bedside to help clear my head.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don’t know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

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

Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

I have the view that if I am no longer a president, I am determined to become a sage in the sense that I will get closer to God, take care of the children so they can become good citizens, advise people, and guide the government from behind by using whatever I have to assist the country.

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

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.

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

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

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today’s youth shall look upon you as a sage.